SociaLifeChicago Technology Stack

Adyen is a payment processing platform built for businesses within any sector, with tools for accepting payments in multiple formats and optimizing growth.

Boku is a mobile payments network providing mobile-enhanced payments in e-commerce and at physical point-of-sale.

Kickstarter is a crowdfunding platform for creative projects such as movies, music, art, theater, games, comics, design, and photography.

Toast offers POS and restaurant management solutions.

Cloud based storage systems by AWS.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a comprehensive, evolving cloud computing platform provided by Amazon that includes a mixture of infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and packaged software as a service (SaaS) offerings.

ASP.net is an open source framework for building web applications and services with .NET and C#.

Chartbeat is a content intelligence company. The company sells information to publishers, media companies and news websites that they can use to make decisions about the content to publish and promote on their sites.

Gravatar is a service for providing globally unique avatars and was created by Tom Preston-Werner. It is owned by Automattic, having integrated it into their WordPress.com blogging platform.

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScript.

JavaScript is the programming language of HTML and the Web.

Nginx is a web server which can also be used as a reverse proxy, load balancer, mail proxy and HTTP cache.

Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform, JavaScript runtime environment that executes JavaScript code outside of a web browser.

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor is a server-side scripting language designed for Web development, but also used as a general-purpose programming language. PHP code may be embedded into HTML code, or it can be used in combination with various web template systems, web content management systems, and web frameworks.

Cloudflare mitigates threats from website scraping to application level attacks e.g. SQL Injection and DDOS Protection without any additional hardware.

reCAPTCHA is a CAPTCHA-like system designed by Google to establish that a computer user is human.

Cloudflare Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a geographically distributed group of servers that ensure fast delivery of Internet content, including HTML pages, JavaScript files, stylesheets, and images.

Tout is a video publishing platform that helps content companies, advertisers and publishers generate more online video revenue.

Tumblr, a microblogging platform, enables companies and users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog.

Vimeo PRO is a business video hosting platform.

WordPress is a website and blog creation and publishing platform with tools for aesthetic designing, visitor tracking, content storage and upload.

YouTube is a video sharing service where users can watch, like, share, comment and upload their own videos. The video service can be accessed on PCs, laptops, tablets and via mobile phones.

Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with each new site added.

ComScore is a web analytics and digital marketing software that assesses users website and online platforms performances based on visitor trends and search engine results. ComScore lets users identify digital audiences in depth and enables user to drill down on vital traffic data and in turn segment your audiences for retargetting content campaigns.

Google Analytics allows users to measure sales & conversions, plus gain fresh insights into how visitors use sites, & how they arrived on site.

Eventbrite is an event management solution which helps businesses to plan, manage, & grow events through tools such as ticketing, attendee tracking, & marketing.

Inkscape is an open sourced business graphic software. This Linux, Windows & OSX vector graphics editor (SVG format) features transparency, gradients, node editing, pattern fills and PNG export.

Snapchat is a messaging & multimedia mobile platform that allows users to communicate with customers, create vertical video ads, and manage campaigns.

OneCause is a fundraising platform designed for nonprofits to manage all types of fundraising campaigns

Whatsapp Business powers businesses communication with customers all over the world, so they can connect with them on WhatsApp in a simple, secure, and reliable way.

WooCommerce is an eCommerce plugin for Wordpress