About Us

We're a small fun-loving company that's obsessive about making work a little less tedious and, ideally, a whole lot more fun.

Having spent years using less than desirable "enterprise" software, we decided we couldn't take it any longer. We knew there could be simpler and more appropriate solutions to all of the typical business problems, so we set out to create some.

Our first application is a bug and issue tracker named Sifter. To some degree, we feel we're a bit crazy to enter such a crowded market, but on the other hand, we're working to create something a little different.

The Team

Garrett Dimon Co-founder, Support, Designer, and Developer.

Garrett Dimon - Garrett is the Designer and Developer behind Sifter. He's been involved in building web applications since early 2000, and has been dying to create Sifter ever since. Armed with a degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas and many years of User Experience Design under his belt, Garrett set out to build Sifter in January of 2008.

Garrett believes passionately that the web can be more friendly, usable, and useful. That means taking a more holistic approach to how we design, build, and share our ideas online. Sifter is his first major contribution to that end.

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• Check out his personal blog at GarrettDimon.com

Adam Keys Development, API, and Support

Adam Keys - Adam is one of the primary developers behind Sifter. He also manages the support queue from time to time.

Adam is a software developer and writer who lives in and about Dallas in the great state of Texas. When not coding or writing, Adam spends his time being a sucker for animals, an amateur humorist, an arbitrator of what is geek-chic and an aspiring erudite.

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• Check out his personal blog at TheRealAdam.com

Keith Jacobs Co-founder, Investor, and Operations.

Keith Jacobs - Keith and Garrett have worked together for almost ten years, and for most of that time Keith listened to Garrett wax philosophically about how to build a different kind of bug tracker. But it wasn't until Garrett told him about his thoughts of quitting his job and building that bug tracker that Keith knew he was serious. So Keith put up some seed money, handled some of the logistics, and the business was up and running.

Keith isn't involved in day-to-day operations, but he does help manage the other logistical aspects of running a business so that everyone else can keep their heads down and improve Sifter. For his day job, Keith runs a user-experience consulting company based in Dallas.

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Dan Benjamin Director of Technology

Dan Benjamin - Dan is the Director of Technology and has been involved with Sifter since some of the early prototypes. Providing years of knowledge and experience, Dan helps keep Sifter on track. With a strong focus on user experience, he's been creating software, managing teams and projects, writing, speaking, and developing businesses for over 16 years. He's become known for the insight and tutorials on Hivelogic, his talks at technology conferences, and for creating several large scale content management systems (such as the A List Apart CMS). Dan also co-created Cork'd, the web's first online community for wine aficionados (acquired by Gary Vaynerchuk's Wine Library).

Dan's goal is to work with Next Update by sharing his development knowledge and approach, business perspective, management skills, and emphasis on user experience.

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• Check out his website at Hivelogic.com