Viget is a digital agency / product dev shop. We exist to do great work for inspiring clients — that’s our primary focus.
Pointless Corp. is Viget’s innovation lab. Pointless is our place to experiment with our own ideas independent of Viget clients.
Our projects are either tools (useful & lasting), experiments (sometimes incomplete), or stunts (just for fun).
Digitizing the murder mystery party: easier-to-plan, more immersive execution.
The easiest way to choose your own adventure.
Hello, smarter appointment scheduling.
The best way to run a baby pool.
Discover exotic places with local hosts in a galaxy far, far away
Our latest experiment in Web VR
Play in a handbell choir with your friends using your phone.
Group food orders made ridiculously easy.
like fishbowl, but giffier
Organize, attend, and give better talks.
An interactive data visualization of our GitHub activity in WebVR.
When life needs refereeing.
Trevor leads a cross-office microclass.
Our process is simple. Have an idea? Share it, plan it, and make it happen.
Teams vary from 2 to 20, schedules from 2 days to 2 years, and outcomes from utter failure to legitimate success.
Best way to do a code review — from the bar stools
Kevin channels his inner bookie to get in the Baby Bookie spirit
Laura leads a whiteboarding session for Baby Bookie
The fine upstanding people of Viget. Viget’s CEO, known as @barn on Twitter and around the office, could be considered the Pointless CEO. For individual Pointless projects, someone at Viget is effectively the product manager / project champion.
As Barn explained in this 2009 blog post, point in every direction is the same as no point at all. Through Pointless, we’re open to any idea, untethered by the inherent limitations of client work. We never forget, though, that while these projects are fun and useful, they aren’t the point. Pointless isn’t a real corporation, it’s a concept within Viget -- a very real company that must stay focused on our real, important clients.
To scratch our itches. To experiment, fail, learn, and grow. To make things. To have fun. To empathize with our clients, end users, and each other. To try different roles, new technologies, unusual processes, and get better at what we do.
We founded Viget in 1999 to build web products for startup clients. We always tinkered with our own ideas, mostly sharing them via our open source efforts. In 2008 we started formalizing the concept of an innovation lab and created our beloved bear logo. In 2009, we announced Pointless to the world and began launching utilities like SpeakerRate and stunts like Tweets of Fury. In 2011 we had the first of our occasional Pointless Weekends where projects go from idea to launch in 48 hours. On Halloween in 2013, Doug (designer of our logo) dressed up as the Pointless Bear. We continue to dream up and launch new Pointless Projects as inspiration and time allow.
Viget’s legal name is “Viget Labs, LLC” because we always wanted to be an innovation company. Founded in 1999, we were “labs” before labs was cool. So, when we started more formally building our own stuff, we wanted an entirely separate name to house these projects.
Since Pointless Corp. isn't actually a corporation, you can contact Pointless by contacting Viget.
Whether you’re a startup or established company looking for innovative ideas and expert execution, visit our contact page.
If you like working with great teammates on digital projects for clients and each other, visit our careers page.