Team

Ordinary Bicycle is staffed by experienced web developers Jake Elliott and Tamas Kemenczy. With a cumulative weight of almost 300 lbs., Jake and Tamas are firmly constrained by the force of gravity and their commitment to seeing your site through from conception to execution to maintenance.

Jake Elliott

Jake Elliott develops web applications in more languages than you have teeth. He keeps a set of digital dentures in a glass of python saliva on his bedside table and chews human adrenal glands like fruit-stripe gum.

Tamas Kemenczy

Tamas Kemenczy's slick, elegant designs and agile server-side scripts are almost as widely feared as his pet laser-panther Bagheera. Born in the former Yugoslavia, he currently lives several miles below the surface of Lake Michigan in an ad-hoc life-support bubble made up of swarming electric eels.

Our Portfolio

Ordinary Bicycle is a freshly-spanked new web development firm. Here are some projects previously executed by its developers, Tamas Kemenczy and Jake Elliott.

FreeRadioSAIC

Programmed by Jake Elliott and designed by Aay Preston-Mynt. Developed in Python with the Django framework.

threadcloud

Designed by Tamas Kemenczy, Programmed by Jake Elliott and Tamas Kemenczy. Built in PHP & Python, using AJAX/Javascript.

Ezara Hoffman

Painter's website programmed by Jake Elliott in PHP. Ezara came up with a design based on a few sketches on paper, and Jake translated it into CSS and HTML templates driven by a dynamic backend.

How many times has this happened to you?

In month three of a four-month development project your web developer is scuba diving off the coast of Colombia where she discovers a solid gold robot suit fabled to have belonged to El Dorado. She uses her newfound hardware to enforce a bloody campaign of absolute rule over South America. Meanwhile, your project is behind schedule and you've sunk thousands of dollars into the coffers of a power-hungry cyborg.

Right now, you're thinking "What did I do wrong?"

Well, first off, you chose a web developer who knows how to scuba dive. Ordinary Bicycle is headquartered in Chicago, which is the American epicenter of Web 2.0 and also TOTALLY LANDLOCKED. Our developers don't even know what S.C.U.B.A. stands for (Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus). We're not treasure-hunters, we're programmers, and we are chained to your project like a renegade would-be cyborg dictator chained to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

Let's put it another way: the developers at Ordinary Bicycle don't have any hobbies.

We're not going to die in the eleventh hour in a freak para-sailing accident like your last programmer did because WE ARE AFRAID OF THE SUN. In its place, we've committed to a practice of rapid, efficient and highly maintainable development. The current web technology envirosphere is flooded with development systems and frameworks, and we've done the research and practical testing to make sure that the sites and applications we build will soar like Icarus.

Picture another scenario:

You have a great website, selling dogfood online to reclusive pet owners, and a giant white weather-balloon annihilates Chicago. Now, Ordinary Bicycle has access to a fallout shelter, but let's just assume hypothetically that we didn't. Right about now, you're probably thinking "OH, FUCK! My developers have been snuffed by an unfathomable evil and I need to modify my shopping cart to accept Drachmas!" Well, fortunately for you, one language in web development is universal: simplicity. The sites we build are organized and programmed according to documented best practices, using open standards and open source software technologies, which is a geeky way of saying that any web developer worth their salt will be able to read and modify the code that drives your site.

Contact us by Email

rover@ordinarybicycle.com

tamas kemenczy: tamas@ordinarybicycle.com

jake elliott: jake@ordinarybicycle.com

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