Pointless Corp. is the innovation lab at Viget.
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).
Thrillr.club
Digitizing the murder mystery party: easier-to-plan, more immersive execution.
Storyboard
The easiest way to choose your own adventure.
pow wow
Hello, smarter appointment scheduling.
Baby Bookie
The best way to run a baby pool.
Starbnb
Discover exotic places with local hosts in a galaxy far, far away
Lights Out
Our latest experiment in Web VR
JamBells
Play in a handbell choir with your friends using your phone.
Shorter Order
Group food orders made ridiculously easy.
Gifbowl
Like fishbowl, but giffier
SpeakerRate
Organize, attend, and give better talks.
Vigeverse
An interactive data visualization of our GitHub activity in WebVR.
Boom! Carded
When life needs refereeing.
SocialPiq
Find the right social media tools.
Tracktor
Managing Harvest timers the Arduino Way.
Pearl
Finding pearls in a sea of internship candidates.
Graba
Quickly Find & Book Meeting Rooms
Spots You
Reimburse your employees for gym memberships they actually use.
CanScanCans
Raspberry Pi + Google Analytics + Soda Cans
TinCan'd
Simple simple group video, instantly.
HauntedHills
Spooky.
Literally Spots You
The Boulder parking spot solution
Omaha That
Sometimes life needs an audible.
JingleBots
Jingle all the way
Illumigami
The Hero Conference Rooms Deserve
Verbose
What’s in a Word? Building a Verbose Party Game
Vigetoons
A simple & quick way for anyone to make their own comic in Figma.
Scurry
A Race-To-Finish Scavenger Hunt App
Glimpsee
Staying Connected with Glimpsee
Finding Zorch
Tracking a fictional hunt for Bigfoot through a physical data installation.
SitStay
A Credit-Based Petsitting App
The Data-Driven Gardener
Personalized garden plan based on plant and weather data.
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.
The fine upstanding people of Viget. Viget’s CEO, known as @barn on X 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.