Twenty-five years of full-stack web and app development as Rixx City Studios. Same hands, same room, new name — and a catalog of our own alongside the client work.
A social network built on blocks, not feeds — neighborhood-scoped profiles, audio, and encrypted messaging. Live on iOS, Android landing within days, full web application alongside it.
App Store ↗ blvckmeta.com ↗
Scan a receipt, know exactly when the warranty dies. Apple Vision reads the store, date and total on device — no account, no server, no telemetry. A dollar, once, forever.
App Store ↗ Site ↗
A house-flipping game built for AmBASSador Design & Build. We made the whole thing — the game, the logo, the identity, and the company website.
App Store ↗ Site ↗
Peer-to-peer roadside assistance. Drop a signal — dead battery, flat tire, out of fuel, locked out — and every verified tech within three miles gets pinged.
sgnlsapp.com ↗
A workforce ERP for Step-Up Omaha. Applications, cohorts, coaching, attendance, payroll and reporting for 717 young people across a summer.
empowercampus.com ↗
Logos, apparel, signage, packaging and covers — drawn here, printed here, worn and driven around Omaha.
Two picture-book series, drawn and lettered in the same room as everything else.
Pick what you need and watch the number move. No callback, no gatekeeping — the same figures we'd quote you on the phone.
I've been building websites and applications since 2000, as Rixx City Studios. Radio stations, restaurants, magazines, clothing labels, a photobooth company — if it needed a front end and something running behind it, we built it.
Somewhere in there I got tired of asking permission for my own work. Every book I wrote, somebody else owned the shelf. Every record, somebody else owned the master. So I stopped asking and used the same tools to build the shelf.
We work out of North Omaha. That's not a detail. The stories we publish come from these blocks, and the platforms we build serve the people on them.
This year the name changed to B.A.S.S. — Black Artists Surpassing Standards. Nothing else did.
Twenty-five years. Eleven hundred clients. Three iOS apps live. Eighteen titles in print. One room.
