Tapity: A Retrospective

Tapity is a mobile app company that was founded in 2009 by Jeremy Olson to develop mobile apps. In 2011, Todd Olson joined Tapity, and together they grew Tapity to a $1,000,000 revenue company. During its growth, Tapity continued to develop its app portfolio while also opening the doors to design apps for clients. In 2016, Tapity sold its flagship product—the Hours time tracking app—and the company closed by year’s end.

Tapity was a great little company that allowed all who worked there to grow tremendously while having a really great time. This site presents a flavor of what Tapity was about. Check out what Tapity’s folks are up to now at the bottom of this page.

Our apps

We designed and developed world-class, award-winning apps that were well loved by users around the world.

*Grades: Tells students what scores they need on upcoming assignments to get their target grade in a class*

*Languages: A beautiful, lightning-fast language dictionary that works off-line*

*Hours: Our premier business app that helps individuals and companies keep track of how users spend time on tasks and projects*

*Cleaning Mona Lisa: A multimedia digital book that brings art to life with art historian, Lee Sandstead*

*Buffalo Wings: Much-better-than-Flappy-Bird game*

Our work for clients

Tapity began doing mobile app design work for clients in 2011. We had the opportunity to serve dozens of clients, from solo entrepreneurs to large corporations.

Design leadership

From the earliest days of Tapity, we have had a passion for learning great design and sharing what we were learning in real time. Design leadership is part of Tapity’s DNA that lives on in all of those who were part of the Tapity team.

Jeremy co-authored The App Design Handbook, one of the early successful books on app design — Jeremy co-authored *The App Design Handbook,* one of the early successful books on app design

Todd is the principal author of “The Design Innovator” blog on Medium (click to open publication)

Jeremy authored several articles for UX Magazine and Smashing Magazine (click on each logo to see list)

Find us now!

Tapity’s founder and former staff are still out there creating and influencing digital design. In case you can’t find us in the picture above, here are some clues…

Jeremy Olson was Tapity’s Founder and Lead DesignerHe is now Designer at Coda, a startup based in San Francisco.Email • Twitter • LinkedIn — **Jeremy Olson** was Tapity’s Founder and Lead Designer
He is now Product & Marketing Lead at Coda.io, a startup based in San Francisco.
Email • Twitter • LinkedIn

Todd Olson, president, business manager, and strategic design lead at Tapity, is now semi-retired in Charlotte, NC.

Christian Billings, senior designer at Tapity, is now Designer at Credit Karma, in Charlotte, NC.

Ben Samelak, designer at Tapity, now owns The Barn at Cedar Hill, a wedding and event venue in Salisbury, NC.

Michael Aprile, head of marketing at Tapity, is now Senior B2B Marketing Leader at Endava, in Charlotte, NC.

Stephen Wise, SEO expert at Tapity, is now a freelance digital marketing expert in Charlotte, NC.