Posted on Jul 9, 2015 by
Joe Enzminger
We started building nibl.com almost four years ago. The concept was simple enough – if you could create a way for people to pay-as-they-go on the web, we could create an alternative to the advertising and subscription models for web monetization that would both improve content quality and create new opportunities for content creators to fund their work. Having a single account that used one login to access premium content on the web would be a powerful tool that would …
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Posted on Jun 9, 2015 by
Nathaniel Haefner
I do lots and lots of css prototyping and have always written things in just plain old vanilla css. I didn’t really think I would benefit much from a css preprocessor, and at first, I really didn’t. I actually got really annoyed that I couldn’t get it to compile into what I would have written long-hand. Mostly this had to do with the cascade order of classes and where media queries ended up in the document, but I started to …
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Posted on Dec 30, 2014 by
Nathaniel Haefner
The goal of the new release of nibl is to empower our users with the social aspects of the web, but seamlessly integrate it into our powerful selling platform. Now selling a product or any digital content is just as simple as updating your status. This is the biggest change to nibl we have ever released.
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Posted on Oct 30, 2014 by
Nathaniel Haefner
Limiting the information that users can input makes designing an application easier and makes the experience more uniform when users interact with each other’s content. Is the simplicity of uniformity worth the compromise in customization? For nibl, I wanted to find a balance between the two, where the site will remain beautiful and adapt to anything a user does to customize their experience.
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