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Blog

  • Product Owners

    • A Guide to How BRS Keeps Their Clients Involved Every Step of the Way

    • Aidan Mirisola-Sullivan
  • The Art of Project Management

    • Like Spinning Plates

    • Aidan Mirisola-Sullivan
  • Enterprise hapi

    • with an Enterprise Client

    • Bill Woodruff
  • Sponsoring the future of Node.js web frameworks

    • Ensuring hapi days are ahead

    • Devin Ivy
  • Case Study: Embedded NodeJS Team

    • An embedded consulting and development team augmentation project that forged a longterm partnership.

    • Emily Straubel
  • Why Node.js

    • Why The Biggest Tech Companies Are Switching to Node.js

    • Emily Straubel
  • Cloud Migration to AWS

    • When is the right time to move your business to the cloud.

    • Emily Straubel
  • Need a working vacation?

    • The Developer-in-Residence program is designed to bring fresh talent to Maine from anywhere in the world.

    • Emily Straubel
  • Notes on Net Neutrality

    • This is about creating a fair playing field for new companies, economic opportunity for rural communities, and about people choosing the kind of world we want to live in.

    • Sam Mateosian
  • The hapi pal roadmap

    • build a healthy community around building healthy nodejs web services

    • Devin Ivy
  • From Monolith to Microservices

    •  How to refactor a monolithic application into microservices

    • Emily Straubel
  • CBB Hackathon

    • Weekend adventures in computer science.

    • Emily Straubel
  • Introducing hapi pal

    • a suite of tools and best practices for the working hapijs developer

    • Devin Ivy
  • Refactor or Die

    • Prioritizing and decision-making when you need to refactor your SaaS product

    • Emily Straubel
  • Measuring success for new products

    • Metrics that matter when you're building software from scratch

    • Emily Straubel
  • When Growth Stalls

    • How to learn from slow growth and change your platform to perform better and beat the competition

    • Emily Straubel
  • EVENT: STARTUP SPRINT

    • FREE WORKSHOP SERIES TO VALIDATE & PROTOTYPE YOUR STARTUP IDEA

    • Emily Straubel
  • Maine Lumberjacks: A Brand Experiment

    • Building a brand that reflects the rugged Maine woodsman for a team named the "Lumberjacks".

    • Emily Straubel
  • Wild Blueberries: A Brand Experiment

    • When crowdsourcing a hockey team name, our designers take on the challenge of reimagining fruit as intimidating for a team named the "Wild Blueberries".

    • Emily Straubel
  • Big News for Maine Hockey Fans

    • Maine Mariners and Big Room Studios Announce Partnership to Create Visual Brand for the New Portland-based Hockey Team

    • Emily Straubel
  • #ASW2017

    • 8 Startup Events Not To Miss At Austin Startup Week 2017 #ASW2017

    • Emily Straubel
  • Twitter Guide to Node Interactive 2017 Speakers

    • @Twitter list of speakers and Node Interactive organizers

    • Emily Straubel
  • Node Interactive 2017 Schedule

    • A quick guide to the Node Interactive Schedule 2017 .

    • Emily Straubel
  • Hiring? Go to Node Interactive

    • Why You'll Meet Your Next (and best) Employee at Node Interactive

    • Emily Straubel
  • How to Hire SEO Services

    • Compare working with SEO freelancers, boutique agencies, full-service agencies and hiring an in-house SEO

    • Emily Straubel
  • SEO Metrics That Matter

    • Tracking key metrics over time will become help you gauge success and improve your tactics.

    • Emily Straubel
  • SEO Best Practices Checklist

    • List of the fundamental SEO best practices to follow when building or redesigning websites.

    • Emily Straubel
  • Civic Design Fest 2017

    • Building tech for our community. September 23rd - Mechanics Hall

    • Emily Straubel
  • Startup Marketing Toolkit

    • The apps and services we use to help startups scale and automate their marketing.

    • Emily Straubel
  • New SEO/PPC Services!

    • Big Room now offers a 3 week intensive marketing bootcamp for businesses that need to get a lot done, quickly.

    • Emily Straubel
  • ART: SEEN - VR Art Experience at MSCW

    • Last week we debuted our newest Virtual Reality art experience ART: SEEN at the Maine Startup and Create Week. An interactive tour of Maine's art scene.

    • Emily Straubel
  • Get Funded: Part 6 (The prototype)

    • A prototype might be all you need to prove to investors that your company's opportunity outweighs the potential risk.

    • Emily Straubel
  • Maine's R&D Bond Passed. Thank God.

    • Despite predictably low voter turnout, The Economic Development Bond passed and was later signed into law.

    • Emily Straubel
  • Getting Funded: Part 5 (The metrics)

    • Know which startup metrics matter and how to track them. It could make all the difference in getting seed funding.

    • Emily Straubel
  • Founders Party

    • You're formally invited to this ridiculous party. There will be beer. There will be shenanigans.

    • Emily Straubel
  • Maine Startup & Create Week 2017

    • We'll be hosting workshops, panels and throwing a badass party. Here's a list of where to find Big Roomers.

    • Emily Straubel
  • Vote Today in Maine to Invest in R&D

    • Vote YES on Question 1 to Invest in Maine's Research & Development

    • Emily Straubel
  • Getting Funded: Part 4 (The market)

    • It takes experimentation and testing to understand how a product that will meet the needs of the market.

    • Emily Straubel
  • Getting Funded: Part 3 (The origin story)

    • Craft a pitch story that makes them personally invested in your team and your product's success through basic storytelling techniques.

    • Emily Straubel
  • Getting Funded: Part 2 (The obsession)

    • Whether they call it passion, grit or obsession, investors need to know you'll do whatever it takes to grow the company against all odds.

    • Emily Straubel
  • Getting Funded: Part 1 (The startup team)

    • In a highly competitive market, investors have been increasingly judicious about what, and more importantly, who they invest in.

    • Emily Straubel
  • Losing web traffic?

    • The March 8, 2017 Google algorithm update caused panic for most. Unless you have a site with awesome content.

    • Emily Straubel
  • Wordcamp 2017: Content-First Workshop

    • Sharing the nitty gritty details of our Content-First approach with the world at WordCamp 2017 in Portland.

    • Big Room Studios
  • Maine.js Event

    • Functional Reactive Programming in 2017 and Beyond

    • Emily Straubel
  • Agile-ish

    • We aren’t dogmatic about the way we do things, but we borrow from Agile and Lean processes.

    • Emily Straubel
  • VR For Foodies

    • Can Virtual Reality change the way we taste food in the future?

    • Sam Mateosian
  • Get More Done

    • We keep our teams small, self-organizing and packed with experts.
      Everyone's accountable and responsible. Everyone gets shit done.

    • Big Room Studios
  • Musicians Using VR

    • New musicians embrace VR and give us a vision of what's possible using new technology.

    • Emily Straubel
  • Looking for a Technical Co-Founder?

    • Before you give equity to a technical co-founder, consider one of these hiring options. It might save money, time and even the company.

    • Emily Straubel
  • Wasted.

    • You're wasting your marketing budget on these social media mistakes.

    • Big Room Studios
  • SXSW Guide

    • The Startup Founders Guide To Chance Encounters at SXSW

    • Big Room Studios
  • VR SXSW 2017

    • Where to find us in Austin during SXSW 2017.

    • Big Room Studios
  • Need a job?

    • We're looking at you Project Managers!

    • Big Room Studios
  • Culture of Innovation

    • Over 16 years, BRS has developed a culture of innovation that has mobilized our small but mighty team to produce hundreds of weird and awesome projects.

    • Emily Straubel
  • Featured on WCSH

    • We consider it the greatest compliment to have our work compared to being in the matrix.

    • Emily Straubel
  • What is Agile?

    • The ability to change and innovate quickly.

    • Emily Straubel
  • Virtual Reality Collaboration

    • An event to bring virtual reality to Maine businesses.

    • Emily Straubel
  • Maine Startup and Create Week

    • An interview with co-founder Sam Mateosian on the state of entrepreneurship in Maine.

    • Big Room Studios
  • We're Moving

    • Come September 2015, the newly established Thompson’s Point will be the next place for us to call home.

    • Big Room Studios
  • The Underground’s Finest Project Managers

    • How project management can sometimes feel like playing drums with four arms.

    • Sam Frankel
  • In Defense of CuttySSark

    • Bringing JavaScript-driven events into your CSS.

    • Devin Ivy
  • A Leap Forward

    • The carpet finally matches the drapes, and we couldn’t be more excited.

    • Chris Bracco
  • Westward, Ho!

    • A Startup Pilgrimage from Portland, Maine to San Francisco.

    • Sam Mateosian
  • First Civic Hack Night

    • My thoughts on a heart-warming, butt-cleansing success (more on the butts later.)

    • Sam Mateosian
  • Multiple SSL Certificates in Apache

    • Setting up multiple SSL Certificates in Apache with One IP Address.

    • Tim Mateosian
  • Robotics Hack Weekend

    • The latest member of our team is a keyboard controlled wheelchair named Jazzy.

    • Sam Mateosian

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