We are Nearby Creative

We’re a collective of engineers, designers, and marketing professionals that provides highly-functional teams specializing in Laravel and React product development lifecycles.

Trusted by clients all over the U.S.

We Develop Scalable Products

Whether you’re in the idea stage, midst of deployment, or post-launch phase, we’re here to support you:

Build well-architected Laravel and Node/React apps using scrum
Create go-to-market strategies with press, campaigns, and messaging
Design wireframes, flows, and interfaces for minimal viable products
Entice investors using presentations and quantifiable data and analytics
Manage containerized deployment to cloud infrastructure such as AWS
Validate your product-market fit with pre-build market analysis

How We'll Work With You

You can trust our team of US-based consultants to bring you results via highly-functional teams.

We'll craft the perfect team for your project—typically involving one or many account managers, scrum masters, designers, engineers, and creatives. You'll be the team's priority throughout the lifecycle of your project.

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Responsive

Your team will be responsive to change requests or tickets, and available for communication through an account or project manager.

Talented

We have collective decades of experience in design, engineering, and marketing, making us the right choice for problem-solving.

Fractional

As a fractional team, we provide strategic services that compliment each other and reduce your risk of having to hire many FTEs.

Meet The Talented Nearby Team

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Tim Colbert

CEO

Chris Page

CTO & Founder

Andrew Gordon

VP, Creative

Eli Carrington

VP, Design

Erik Thomas

Director of Engineering

Aaron May

Multimedia Specialist

Elisa Kownacki

AM, Content Specialist

Brittany Gray-Ridgeway

Sr. Project Manager

Experts in PDLC Support

We’re uniquely positioned to offer Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC) support to your product or app—and beyond—with the creation of post-launch strategies.

Step 1.

Product Ideation Consults

At the heart of what we do is dreaming up new and exciting apps, websites, and ideas that we can collectively build with our skilled team of engineers and designers. We can help architect, build, and launch software to your specifications. Our team consults with your organization to unearth the value of your offering and ensure that our process adheres with your goals. Our team works closely with you throughout your project’s lifecycle to ensure deliverables are received on time and on budget.

Architecture Scenarios
Competitor and Market Analysis
Product-Market Fit
Trusted Advisor Consultations

Step 2.

Interface Design and Research

Design is paramount to effective and efficient software development due to its impact on flow, user journeys, aesthetic, and interaction. Our creative designers work closely with you to craft intelligent prototypes and true-to-life mockups that you can review and approve through an Agile process, similar to what happens in the development stage of your project. The pages that we create serve as the basis for your application’s or website’s front-end.

Information Architecture
Usability Testing and Analysis
User Interface Design
User Experience Research

Step 3.

Product or Application Engineering

Software engineering is at the core of our offerings as a technology-first firm. Our senior team is able to build anything from enterprise applications to microservices, whether you have design support or are earlier in that process. As consultants we have built and maintained software for our clients in ad-tech, retail, financial, medical, and law fields. We primarily build full-stack applications in PHP/Laravel (LAMP) or Javascript/React (MERN) on AWS infrastructure.

Extensible Languages and Stacks
Modern Patterns and Algorithms
Scalable Data Structures and Models
Test Driven Development

Step 4.

Infrastructure Setup and Deployment

Once your application is built there are a few steps that our team will take in the veins of DevOps and CloudOps to ensure your software is served efficiently, configured correctly, and available on-demand to load-balanced traffic. We’ll work with you to figure out which infrastructure setup is best for your needs. Through containerization built into the development phase, we leverage this approach for a continuous delivery pipeline. We take security seriously, and can offer audits and compliance services to bolster your software’s implementation.

Automated CI/CD Pipelines
Load Balancing and Auto-Scaling
Risk Assessment and Audits
Virtual Container Orchestration

Step 5.

Marketing and Communications

Pre- and post-launch you may be wondering how you’re going to get the word out about your product—that’s where we can provide marketing and communications support to bolster your online presense and promote the value you’ve created. Our marketing team has collective decades of experience in promoting businesses, products, and events, and are here to ensure your launch is well received. We go beyond social media posts to offer strategic advisory support and press to get the word out to the right paid, owned, and earned channels.

Go-To-Market Strategies
Messaging and Positioning
Social Media and Public Relations
Venture Capital and Investor Relations

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Collective Excellence

We bring years of consulting of creative expertise
to our long-lasting partnerships with clients.

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Full-Stack Software
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Design and
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Content Writing
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Public Relations
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How We’re Different

We live and breathe deep tech. Our engineering team is pro at building responsive LAMP and MERN-based applications. Read more about why we chose LAMP and MERN.

We’re marrying the likes of engineering, design, and marketing to create a full-lifecycle approach to software and product development that goes above and beyond what other agencies are able to offer—setting us apart as the team that can provide you with the strength, agility, and flexibility to need to get to market smartly and efficiently.