Dec 2004
bitnpixel GmbH is founded
Daniel Corbellini, Raphael Schenker & Daniel Vuilleumier now own a company.
Follow us through the years by swiping screens.
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2004
The founders
Daniel Corbellini, Daniel Vuilleumier, Raphael Schenker (left-to-right) in their early-mid 30ies.2005
Hardturmstrasse 171
Thank you, SAM! Thank you Media Trend Journal & Stiftung PWG!
Build websites with Java Server Pages and editors based on PHP4 and PHP5. And pursue other business ideas…
2005
rip2media
We had two CD-ripstations ready for ripping 50 compact discs in parallel, burning DVDs and creating a
booklet on a linux based system. Thanks, Felix!2007
Apple iPhone
RIP, Nokia! Classic websites on your palm?
To see the 960px 12-grid layout you had to rotate the device. This is hard to imagine nowadays.
2007
Apple iPhone
Can you remember how Steve Jobs shocked the audience?2009
Hardturmstrasse 175
Thank you, PSP! Specialize on custom made websites.
Paris calling: Symfony PHP conference, the leading PHP framework,
soon to become the base for CMS like Drupal, Typo3, Joomla, Contao and Craft.
2009
Hardturmstrasse 175
Stylish office in the former Bostitch building.
Thank you, SAM for letting us your space. This is where we grew our staff and business.2010
Birth of Responsive Design
Notebooks were yesterday. Screendesign by pixel as well,
we now adapt to the available space by using percentages and viewport entities.
2010
Apple iPad
And Steve Jobs shocked again with a completely new device category.2012
Mobile First
Check out a new JS-Framework each month.
Decision for Ruby on Rails and jQuery. NodeJS gains popularity.
Still, we decided to stay on SSR with sprinkles of Javascript.
2012
Aproprio for PWG
Responsive, scroll-down page with RaphaëlJS framework. You don't need this to be client-side rendered.2014
Shit happens
Thank you, Raphael & Philipp, you saved the year.
2016
No own hardware anymore
Thank you, MetaNet AG! Bye Proxmox, Zimbra, Synology and pfSense.
Decision to leave VPS to AWS, Digital Ocean and Co. Docker and K8 get popular.
2016
MetaNet AG
We had a few HE rackservers including hardware firewall, backup system und fully redundant servers running.2017
Limmatquai 62, Literaturhaus
Thank you, SchmauderUnd! Thank you, Literaturhaus and SBB AG!
Shopify, Squarespace, Webflow, Stripe. Upgrade most projects to Rails 6.
2017
Work from within the postcard
Move to Limmatquai 62. Share atelier with SchmauderUnd. Enjoy the view, the environment and the water.2018
Functional Programming
Warsaw calling: Elixir conference, Phoenix web-framework looking good.
Playing with Presence and LiveView (realtime socket communication).
2019
Platform as a Service
Thank you, Vögele Kultur Zentrum & Oro de Cacao!
Squarespace & E-commerce. Play with Go, Elixir and Svelte. Signaletik Editor gets insourced.
2020
Corona strikes
Thank you, Max Dudler! Home office, video conferencing.
Offer some VPN, cloud solutions and PaaS for clients. Build some improvements to websites.
2020
Max Dudler Seefeld
Take your iMac home over Corona. Use BIM-Servers via VPN. Use Hangouts and Voip for communicaton.2021
Headless wins
Build with VueJS. Do more consulting and support.
Look out for job opportunities, maybe management or solution architect?
2022
Good bye
It has been a wild journey with many learnings (some by heart).
Leave bitnpixel for good, DEPT®.