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How's Atlas Collective doing? Well, I'm doing fine, thanks! Originally Atlas Collective was conceived as a distributed agency, and I worked towards growing a team. Of the two who worked with me the first year year, one took a very high paying job he definitely deserved, and I had a falling out with the other. Both, I think, were for the best.  Atlas Collective has been a one person endeavor for about a year now. I’ve been focusing on building a lean business model with extremely low overhead, location independence, and super high quality of life. Seriously - most weeks I’ve been...

Atlas collective was born as an experiment.An experimental business model for the future. One suited to thrive in the new economy.A new form of social enterprise, a collectively owned and operated open source organization. Or, more specifically, to answer the question, "Is it possible for a distributed team, to collaboratively produce world-class, service-based highly technical and specialized work?"And in practice, our launch point, was "Can we build badass websites with a small team, leveraging the flexibility of the Shopify platform, and be a profitable, sustainable business?" What a wild and wonderful ride it has been.I'd like to take this opportunity...

We're growing! As we've continued to grow the team, we're beginning to run into issues with project management and communication overhead.  We need a more robust system for tracking deadlines, accountability and task follow up so that nothing falls off the radar, and a Birdseye view for a per user and per project basis. Trello has worked wonderfully for keeping up with internal projects and to-dos for several people, but lacks a way to keep up with tasks and to-dos across multiple boards, so it's easy for things to fall of the radar. We're pleased to announce that we're switching over...

We're happy to introduce Debut Drops Ins! It is an open source repository for re-usable Shopify sections. Check it out here: https://github.com/cameroncowden/debut-drop-ins

We're super excited to announce that we've been accepted into the Shopify Accelerator program.