Projects and Companies using Backbone

The following is a list of companies and projects using Backbone.js in production. This list does not include applications and sites created for the purpose of teaching or demo-ing Backbone.js. For tutorials and demos, please visit Tutorials, blog posts and example sites.

Star Slot City

• Link: www.starslotcity.co.uk

• Description: Star Slot City is an online gambling site for UK users only, made as a single page app for speed and best user experience, flash free so works across all devices.

• Authors:

  • Sean Williams @srawilliams
  • Michael Bearne @michaelbearne
  • Geoff Meakin @gmsharky
  • Daniel Stenger @acidstenger
  • Annabel Ledger @annabelledger

• Other Technologies Used:

  • BackboneJS
  • Coffee-script
  • nodeJS
  • Ruby on Rails
  • MongoDB
  • Many others

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RebelMouse.com

• Link: http://www.rebelmouse.com
• Description: RebelMouse powers social front pages and publishing. Launched in beta with incredible reviews http://pandodaily.com/2012/06/08/rebelmouse-is-the-social-media-aggregator-weve-all-been-waiting-for/ in June 2012. Adding to the team so please reach out if interested, location doesn't matter, its a distributed team.
• Authors:
  • Paul Berry https://twitter.com/teamreboot
  • RebelMouse Team http://www.rebelmouse.com/RebelMouse
• Other Technologies Used:
  • Python/Django
  • Memcache/Membase/Redis/Mysql/Mongo
  • many others

Rides.tv

• Link: http://rides.tv
• Description: Rides.tv is a new type of interactive video experience. It bridges the devices and connections you already have to create a digitally immersive experience. The entire interactive video player is powered by backbone.js leveraging the strength of HTML5.
• Image: http://i.imgur.com/R1sLl.png
• Authors:
  • Todd Mohney
  • Justin Reynard https://twitter.com/framerate
  • Fourth Wall Studios http://www.fourthwallstudios.com
• Other Technologies Used:
  • jQuery
  • underscore
  • many others

Sprint.ly

• Link: http://sprint.ly
• Description: Sprint.ly is an innovative collaboration tool for companies that build software products. We provide an open, transparent, and easy way for the entire team to participate in the creation process.
• Image: http://i.imgur.com/f1f09l.jpg
• Authors:
  • Graham Blache https://twitter.com/gblache
  • Joe Stump https://twitter.com/joestump
• Other Technologies Used:
  • Django
  • jQuery
  • d3

Nokia Profiles by Nokia

• Link: http://profiles.nokia.com/
• Company: http://www.nokia.com
• Description: Nokia Profiles lets you build simple and elegant personal profile page that highlights your favorite places around the world and access other Nokia Location and Commerce services: Nokia Maps and Nokia Pulse.
• Authors:
  • Andrei Zharau https://twitter.com/#!/zharau
  • David Graves https://twitter.com/#!/dagraves
  • Misha Bove http://mishabove.com
• Other Technologies Used:
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Nokia Maps API
  • Nokia Places API
    

Taxi

• Link: http://taximeeting.com
• Description: Taxi is browser-based web meeting software that gets out of your way. Upload unlimited presentations, and remotely host presentations with scores of visitors right in the browser. Supports all major browsers including for mobile devices.

HTML5 Grooveshark

• Link: http://html5.grooveshark.com
• Description: A HTML5 Mobile version of Grooveshark online streaming music player
• Other technologies used:
  • Underscore.js
  • jQuery
  • PHP

dooloop.tv by Clipfish

• Link: http://www.dooloop.tv
• Company: Clipfish GmbH & Co. KG http://www.clipfish.de
• Description: dooloop.tv is the "second brand" site of Clipfish.de. Watch musicvideos, search in over 40000 videos, choose musicvideos from favourited artists in your facebook stream, share with your friends and post to your Facebook timeline. This is a one-page-app which communicates with the Clipfish.de JSON API.
• Author:
  • Ralf Geschke http://geschke.name http://twitter.com/geschke
• Other Technologies Used:
  • Bootstrap Framework
  • Underscore.js
  • Facebook JavaScript SDK
  • jQuery
  • PHP
• Restrictions:
  • Due to geoip blocking the site is viewable in Germany only. Sorry!

Digital Pigeon by Sixty Digits

• Link: https://digitalpigeon.com/
• Company: Sixty Digits http://sixtydigits.com/
• Description: Sixty Digits used Backbone.js to create Digital Pigeon, a large file sending service designed for creative professionals. Internally a single page app fully utilising Backbone.js as well as jQuery templates.
• Authors:
  • Dan Washusen https://github.com/danwashusen
  • Stu Clayton https://github.com/stuartclayton
• Other Technologies Used:
  • Apache Cassandra
  • Scale7 Pelops https://github.com/s7/scale7-pelops
  • jQuery
  • MySQL
  • Spring MVC

Jellibug

• Link: http://jellibug.com/
• Description: Jellibug aggregates pictures that popular celebrities, athletes, and influential people post on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Tumblr, and other social media sites into feeds that are easy to browse. Jellibug aims to make it easier for those who like to stay on top of what your favorite celebrities are doing, seeing, and experiencing.
• Authors:
  • James Hu http://github.com/axsuul http://twitter.com/axsuul
• Other Technologies Used:
  • Handlebars.js
  • Ruby on Rails
  • ElasticSearch
  • PostgreSQL
  • jQuery

Mixture.fm - Mixes for the Masses

• Link: http://mixture.fm/
• Description: Mixture.fm gives you access to all the best DJ mixes from around the world. Including BBC Radio 1's famous Essential Mix.
• Authors:
  • Eric Kreutzer http://dribbble.com/erickreutz http://twitter.com/erickreutz
  • Jordan Brown https://twitter.com/jordanbrown
• Other Technologies Used:
  • Rails
  • LESS
  • Pictos font server
  • jQuery

Meemoo hackable web apps

• Link: http://meemoo.org/iframework/
• Code: https://github.com/meemoo
• Video: http://youtu.be/T_tCyYGLWKM
• Description: Meemoo is a visual programming / patching environment for modular hackable creative web apps.
• Author: Forrest Oliphant code, design, thesis @forresto
• Other Technologies Used:
  • jQueryUI

Radio Deejay Birthday

• Link: http://www.deejay.it/D5/30-anni-radio-deejay/
• Video: http://youtu.be/y0miyepJEJI
• Company: http://www.deejay.it/dj/home
• Description: This project uses Facebook and Twitter API to connect users to our application. It allows users to post comments about Radio Deejay and to share them on the social networks.
• Authors:
  • Gianluca Guarini Frontend || Design https://twitter.com/#!/gianlucaguarini
  • Luca La Tegola Backend || Social Networks Integration https://twitter.com/#!/lategolaluca
  • Lorenzo Pace Art Director https://twitter.com/#!/lorenzopace
  • Marco Viganò Project Manager https://twitter.com/#!/Sasha0423
• Other Technologies Used:
  • jQuery
  • Underscore.js
  • Facebook JavaScript SDK
  • Twitter @Anywhere
  • PHP
  • MySQL

KANO/GAMES

• Link: http://www.kanogames.com/
• Company: http://www.kanoapps.com/
• Description: KANO/APPS used Backbone.js to create KANO/GAMES, a social gaming web app. Backbone.js is used in almost every aspect of the app, relying on it for seamless page loading and to construct menus, game listings and game canvases, an interactive HTML5 avatar builder, user and developer profiles, and live feeds.

Pinstagram

• Link: http://www.pinstagram.co/
• Description: The best way to view your Instagram feed on the web. Takes your Instagram photos and puts it in a Pinterest layout.
• Authors:
  • Pek Pongpaet http://dribbble.com/pekpongpaet http://twitter.com/pekpongpaet http://pekpongpaet.com/
  • Brandon Leonardo https://github.com/shiftb http://twitter.com/shiftb http://brandonleonardo.com/
• Other Technologies Used:
  • CoffeeScript
  • Ruby
  • Sinatra
  • Haml-js

SQLFiddle

• Link: http://sqlfiddle.com/
• Description: Application for database developers to build, test and share their SQL quickly.

AtticTV

• Link: http://www.attictv.com/
• Description: It's Music Television (MTV) for the web in a truly "lean back and relax" fashion.

DocumentCloud

• Link: http://www.documentcloud.org/public/
• Company: http://www.documentcloud.org/
• Description: The DocumentCloud workspace is built on Backbone.js, with Documents, Projects, Notes, and Accounts all as Backbone models and collections.
• Authors:
  • Jeremy Ashkenas https://github.com/jashkenas http://twitter.com/jashkenas http://ashkenas.com/
  • Samuel Clay https://github.com/samuelclay http://twitter.com/samuelclay http://samuelclay.com/
• Other Technologies Used:
  • CoffeeScript
  • Node.js
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Solr
  • GraphicsMagick

Basecamp Mobile by 37Signals

• Link: http://basecamphq.com/mobile
• Company: 37Signals http://37signals.com/
• Description: 37Signals used Backbone.js to create Basecamp Mobile, the mobile version of their popular project management software. You can access all your Basecamp projects, post new messages, and comment on milestones (all represented internally as Backbone.js models).
• Authors:
  • Sam Stephenson https://github.com/sstephenson http://twitter.com/sstephenson http://sstephenson.us/
  • Ryan Singer https://github.com/rjs http://twitter.com/rjs http://feltpresence.com/
• Other Technologies Used:
  • Eco
  • Cinco

Sudoku Quest

• Link: http://apps.facebook.com/sudokuquest/?ref=backbone_wiki
• Description: Sudoku Quest is a game of Sudoku written using backbone.js. The game features 10 islands which the players have to cross playing increasingly difficulty sudoku puzzles and also have to take the help of their friends.
• Authors:
  • Ramprasad Rajendran https://github.com/rampr
  • Deepan Chakravarthy https://github.com/codeshepherd
  • Anon Ray https://github.com/ecthiender
  • Abhinav Singh https://github.com/abhniec
  • Vignesh Nandha Kumar https://github.com/vikynandha
• Company: http://hashcube.com
• Other Technologies Used:
  • Underscore.js
  • php
  • SoundManager 2
  • less
  • jquery
  • mysql

TileMill by MapBox

• Link: http://mapbox.github.com/tilemill/
• Company: http://mapbox.com/
• Description: DocumentCloud's fellow Knight Foundation News Challenge winners, MapBox, created an open-source map design studio with Backbone.js: TileMill. TileMill lets you manage map layers based on shapefiles and rasters, and edit their appearance directly in the browser with the Carto styling language.
• Other Technologies Used:
  • Carto Styling Language

Bookmarkly by Dan Grossman

• Link: http://bookmarkly.com/
• Company: http://www.awio.com/
• Description: Bookmarkly is a visual bookmark organizer with tagging and search that can import from all major browsers.
• Other Technologies Used:
  • Node.js

autohaus24.de

• Link: http://www.autohaus24.de
• Direct link to backbone app: http://www.autohaus24.de/neuwagen-kaufen/audi/a3/kompaktwagen/modelle
• Description: autohaus24 is a German portal for selling new cars, making contact between interested customers and traders offering high discounts. Backbone.js helped us to build a well tested, maintainable and highly successful app for configuring cars and showing matching discounts, serving over a million users per month. The complete car configuration process is done with client side javascript - a highly complex task that would have been a lot harder without Backbone and Coffeescript.
• Other Technologies Used:
  • CoffeeScript
  • Handlebars.js
  • jQuery
  • qUnit
  • Ruby on Rails

Insta-great!

• Link: http://instagre.at/
• Description: Elliott Kember and Hector Simpson built Insta-great! - a fun way to explore popular photos and interact with Instagram on the web. Elliott says, "Backbone.js and Coffeescript were insanely useful for writing clean, consistent UI code and keeping everything modular and readable, even through several code refactors. I'm in love."
• Authors:
  • Elliott Kember https://github.com/elliottkember/ http://twitter.com/elliottkember http://elliottkember.com/;
  • Hector Simpson http://dribbble.com/dizzyup http://twitter.com/dizzyup http://dizzyup.co.uk/;
• Other Technologies Used:
  • CoffeeScript

QuietWrite

• Link: http://www.quietwrite.com/
• Description: James Yu used Backbone.js to create QuietWrite, an app that gives writers a clean and quiet interface to concentrate on the text itself. The editor relies on Backbone to persist document data to the server. He followed up with a Backbone.js + Rails tutorial that describes how to implement CloudEdit, a simple document editing app.
• Author:
  • James Yu https://github.com/jamesyu http://twitter.com/jamesjyu http://www.jamesyu.org/;

Projector PM

• Link: http://www.projectorpm.com/
• Description: Projector is a project management tool built specifically for web developers who freelance or consult for clients. It's our first heavy application that uses a "dumb" backend where the majority of business logic and templating code is client-side.
• Author:
  • Brennan Dunn http://twitter.com/brennandunn

Tzigla

• Link: http://tzigla.com/
• Description: Cristi Balan and Irina Dumitrascu created Tzigla, a collaborative drawing application where artists make tiles that connect to each other to create surreal drawings. Backbone models help organize the code, controllers provide bookmarkable deep links, and the views are rendered with haml.js and Zepto. Tzigla is written in Ruby (Rails) on the backend, and CoffeeScript on the frontend, with Jammit prepackaging the static assets.
• Authors:
  • Cristi Balan https://github.com/evilchelu http://twitter.com/evilchelu http://evil.che.lu/;
  • Irina Dumitrascu https://github.com/dira http://twitter.com/dira_geek_girl http://dira.ro/;
• Other Technologies Used:
  • Ruby on Rails
  • CoffeeScript
  • haml.js
  • Zepto
  • Jammit

Substance.io

• Link: http://substance.io/
• Description: Michael Aufreiter is building an open source document authoring and publishing engine: Substance. Substance makes use of Backbone.View and Backbone.Controller, while Backbone plays well together with Data.js, which is used for data persistence.
• Author:
  • Michael Aufreiter https://github.com/michael http://twitter.com/_mql http://quasipartikel.at/ http://michaelaufreiter.tumblr.com/;
• Other Technologies Used:
  • Data.js

Nudie Jeans Fit Guide

• Link: http://nudiejeans.com/fitguide/
• Description: A jeans viewing application that helps you compare different pairs of Nudie Jeans
• Author:
  • Daniel Stocks https://github.com/danielstocks http://twitter.com/roflwtfbbq
  • Aino (Agency) http://aino.se
• Other Technologies Used:
  • Mustache.js
  • jQuery UI
  • IcanHaz.js
  • Django

Midgard2 User Interface

• Link: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/introducing_the_midgard_create_user_interface/

HeroScale

• Link: https://www.heroscale.com/

HelpShelf

• Link: http://HelpShelf.com/

Diaspora X^2

• Link: http://diaspora-x.com/

Menagerie Whiteboard

• Link: http://menagerievet.com/

Archivematica

• Link: http://archivematica.org/

Torrent Notify

• Link: http://torrent-notify.me/
• Description: Service for receiving notifications about new torrent downloads.
• Author:
  • Elving Rodriguez http://twitter.com/elving
• Other Technologies Used:
  • Node.js

Blossom.io

• Link: http://www.blossom.io
• Description: Painless issue tracking

CloudApp

• Link: http://my.cl.ly
• Annotated Source: http://cloudapp.github.com/engine
• Company: http://getcloudapp.com https://twitter.com/getcloudapp
• Description: Share. Files. Fast.
• Authors:
  • Larry Marburger https://github.com/lmarburger http://twitter.com/lmarburger http://developmentastic.com
  • Max Schoening https://github.com/mschoening http://twitter.com/mschoening http://maximilianschoening.com
  • Nick Paulson https://github.com/nickpaulson http://twitter.com/nckplsn http://nickpaulson.com
  • Matthias Plappert https://github.com/matthiasplappert http://twitter.com/mplappert http://matthiasplappert.com
• Other Technologies Used:
  • Heroku
  • CoffeeScript
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Pusher
  • jQuery
  • mustache.js

Flow

• Link: http://www.getflow.com/
• Description: Flow is a task management app that makes working with your team a breeze.

Planbox

• Link: http://www.planbox.com/
• Description: Planbox is a simple yet powerful Agile Project Management tool where teams can plan, work and deliver more efficiently. Planbox is built using Backbone Models, Collections and Views. The application is updated in real time.
• Blog Post: http://www.planbox.com/blog/news/updates/planbox-new-user-interface.html

OnlineChecklists

• Link: http://onlinechecklists.com

• Company: http://aoteastudios.com

• Description: OnlineChecklists.com is an easy way to store checklists on the web. Backbone.js became the foundation of the core application: managing and filling out checklists, managing users and displaying reports. With Backbone.js, the code became simpler and a lot more structured compared to simply using jQuery to manipulate the DOM, and it was easy to create a responsive UI.

• Other Technologies Used:

  • CoffeeScript
  • Ruby on Rails 3
  • Underscore.js (in particular its built-in templates)

m.player

• Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lhjjnnhpfomdbcgnmkejhacbcdppljic
• Description: Offline music player hosted in the Chrome Web Store with Last.fm integration
• Authors:
  • Anton Podviaznikov https://github.com/podviaznikov http://twitter.com/podviaznikov
  • Maryna Aleksandrova http://marynaaleksandrova.info
• Other Technologies Used:
  • HTML5: File API, IndexedDB, HTML5 Audio, node.js

Protosal

• Link: http://protosal.com/
• Description: Perfect Proposal Generation. Fast, easy and fluid. Protosal gets out of your way so you can get things done.
• Authors:
  • Thomas Davis https://github.com/thomasdavis http://twitter.com/neutralthoughts http://thomasdavis.github.com/
  • Ryan Kirkman https://github.com/ryan_kirkman https://github.com/ryankirkman
• Other Technologies Used:
  • Node.js
  • CouchDb

BitTorrent

• Link: http://www.bittorrent.com/chrysalis/
• Description: A desktop bittorrent client that has had the native win32 UI replaced with HTML/CSS/JS.
• Authors:
  • Thomas Rampelberg https://github.com/pyronicide http://twitter.com/pyronicide
• Other Technologies Used:
  • CoffeeScript
  • Underscore.js
  • jQuery
  • handlebars.js
  • couchdb
  • backbone.couchdb.js

Groupon Now!

• Link: http://www.groupon.com/now
• Description: Groupon Now! lets you find great deals in your city that you can buy and use right now. While providing structure, history management and an abstracted interface to the Groupon API, Backbone.js brought the application to life.
  • Keith Norman https://github.com/keithnorm http://twitter.com/keithnorm
  • Dan Gilbert https://github.com/drtangible http://twitter.com/drtangible
• Other Technologies Used:
  • Underscore.js
  • Mustache.js
  • jQuery
  • https://github.com/keithnorm/jquery.lowpro.js
  • https://github.com/keithnorm/jquery.keybinding.js

Trakr

• Link: https://trakrapp.com
• Description: Trakr is a new issue tracking web app which is clean, easy to use and feature-rich. It takes advantage of recent advancements in web technologies to achieve a good combination of functionality and user experience.
• Other Technologies Used:
  • Underscore.js
  • Clojure
  • LESS
  • Mongodb, PostgresQL

eazyBI

• Link: https://eazybi.com
• Description: eazyBI is easy to use business intelligence tool for analyzing data either from uploaded files or from other source applications.
• Authors:
  • Raimonds Simanovskis https://github.com/rsim http://twitter.com/rsim http://blog.rayapps.com/
• Other Technologies Used:
  • CoffeeScript
  • jQuery and jQuery UI
  • Handlebars.js
  • JRuby on Rails
  • [https://github.com/rsim/mondrian-olap](Mondrian OLAP engine)

font dragr

• Link: http://dev.fontdragr.com
• Description: font dragr allows you to quickly test custom fonts directly in the browser just by dragging and dropping font files into the web app.
• Authors:
  • Ryan Seddon https://github.com/ryanseddon http://twitter.com/ryanseddon http://www.thecssninja.com/
• Other Technologies Used:
  • jQuery
  • Node.js

forgetmenot

• Link: https://github.com/hswolff/forgetmenot
• Description: Forgetmenot is a self-hosted todo list application that is accessible via web and mobile browser.
• Authors:
  • Harry Wolff https://github.com/hswolff http://twitter.com/hswolff http://www.harrywolff.com/
• Other Technologies Used:
  • jQuery

rround

• Link: http://www.rround.me
• Repo: https://github.com/elving/rround
• Description: rround is a simple and fun way to discover people and things happening around you.
• Author:
  • Elving Rodriguez http://twitter.com/elving, https://github.com/elving
• Other Technologies Used:
  • Coffeescript
  • Eco
  • Stitch
  • Stylus
  • jQuery
  • Modernizr

Battlefield Play4Free

• Link: http://battlefield.play4free.com
• Description: Battlefield Play4Free is the latest play4free shooter from Easy Studios. Backbone is used in the in game client to create a rich and interactive UI.
• Author:
  • Easy Studios http://easystudios.se/
• Other Technologies Used:
  • jQuery

Quadro

• Link: http://quadroapp.com
• Description: Quadro is a port of Stickies.app to the web platform. The app allows you to write and share post-its with your friends. Also supports local storage for unlogged users using the LocalStorage adapter.
• Authors:
  • Rainer Borene https://github.com/rainerborene http://twitter.com/rainerborene
• Other Technologies Used:
  • Ruby on Rails
  • jQuery and jQuery UI
  • Jammit
  • MongoDB

Wantworthy

• Link: http://wantworthy.com
• Description: Wantworthy is instapaper for shopping. We let women save fashion items they want from all around the web and then come back and decide what to buy later.
• Authors:
  • Ryan Fitzgerald https://github.com/codebrew http://twitter.com/TheRyanFitz
• Other Technologies Used:
  • Coffeescript
  • Ruby on Rails
  • backbone-rails
  • jQuery
  • node.js

Audiovroom

• Link: http://www.audiovroom.com/
• Description: AudioVroom, a "Facebook Spartan" app, is a free music streaming app that allow you to play your Facebook friends like radio stations. It is heavily built on Backbone and also features a responsive grid-based design (using CSS3 media-queries) so that the web app works equally well on desktop, mobiles, and tablets alike.
• Authors:
  • Mauvis Ledford https://github.com/krunkosaurus http://brainswap.me
  • Mark Ledford http://www.markledford.com/blog/ http://brainswap.me
  • Marcos Lara http://blog.audiovroom.com
  • Michael Clemmons https://github.com/glassresistor https://twitter.com/#!/glassresistor
  • Gregory Ray https://github.com/coolblade
• Company: http://socialgeni.us
• Other Technologies Used:
  • Skeleton CSS http://getskeleton.com/
  • SoundManager 2 http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/
  • iScroll 4 http://cubiq.org/iscroll-4
  • Sass http://sass-lang.com/
  • NodeInterval https://github.com/krunkosaurus/NodeInterval
  • Django

G Adventures Booking

• Link: http://www.gadventures.com/trips/costa-rica-quest/CRQ/2012/pricing/ (Example trip, available everywhere)
• Description: We wanted a responsive booking tool that allowed us to condense a many-step process into a dynamic single-step one. Heavily reliant on Backbone.js to update the workflow, maintain state, update with fresh feed data, and glue it all together for final validation on the server.
• Authors:
  • Craig Nagy https://github.com/Nagyman
  • Bartek Ciszkowski https://github.com/bartek
  • Jason Peddle https://github.com/jwpeddle
• Company: http://gadventures.com
• Other Technologies Used:
  • Underscore.js
  • celery
  • Django

ImplantLink by InVivoLink

• Link: http://www.implantlink.com
• Company: http://www.invivolink.com/
• Authors:
  • Riley Strong https://github.com/strongriley
• Description: ImplantLink is a patient portal and clinical outreach platform designed just for orthopedic patients. Physicians are able to send surveys and questionnaires before and after patients' surgery, helping measure their outcome over time. Patients can view content tailored just to them, such as the implants they have.
• Other Technologies Used:
  • rApp
  • jQuery
  • Mustache.js

QuikCV

• Link: http://www.quikcv.com
• Authors:
  • Yomi Colledge http://github.com/baphled
• Description: QuikCV is a simple to use CV management tool that allows users to quick and easily create and manage their online CV.
• Other Technologies Used:
  • Ruby on Rails
  • jQuery and jQuery UI
  • Sass
  • backbone-rails
  • CoffeeScript
  • MongoDB

Jobcast.net

• Link: http://www.jobcast.net
• Authors:
  • Johnny Oshika https://github.com/johnnyo5
  • Leif Parker http://leifparker.com/
• Description: Jobcast.net is a free recruitment app for companies to advertise their job postings on their Facebook Pages. The app allows Facebook Page administrators to post jobs, share jobs on social networks, and manage their candidates directly from within Facebook. It relies heavily on Backbone for model and view management, as well as routers for state management. Backbone made it easy to build a rich and responsive web app while only requiring the server to expose a multi-purpose REST-based API.
• Other Technologies Used:
  • ASP.NET MVC
  • jQuery and jQuery UI
  • Underscore

HALL.com

• Link: http://hall.com
• Description: HALL.com uses Backbone.js and Node.js to power the War Room. More than a chat room, the War Room is the future of team collaboration where co-workers communicate and work in one place. Real-time collaborative features include team chat, file sharing, notepads, and video conferencing.
• Other Technologies Used:
  • jQuery and jQuery UI
  • Underscore
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Node.js
  • Redis

PagerDuty

• Link: http://www.pagerduty.com
• Description: PagerDuty is re-writing their web application (that manages on-call alerting and scheduling for IT teams) to use a standard public API rendered with Backbone.js
• Authors: Ian & Simon

HNterest

• Link: http://hnterest.com

• Description: HNterest.com uses Backbone.js to collect Hacker News API feeds, Twitter Bootstrap 2.0 for layout design, and Mustache.js (http://icanhazjs.com) for rendering template. Design concept inspired by Pinterest.com

• Author: Bryan

ToolPart Team

• Link: http://www.toolpart.hu
• Description: At ToolPart Team we use backbone for any not minimalistic client side javascript coding. Moreover, we try to use it as a server-side package for a Node.js based game. You can follow the game development at our feature blog.

Airbnb Mobile

• Link: http://m.airbnb.com
• Company: Airbnb http://airbnb.com/
• Description: Airbnb used Backbone.js and CoffeeScript to quickly build the new Airbnb mobile website in 2 months. You can discover and book unique spaces in 19,000+ cities in 192 countries right from your phone.
• Authors:
  • Harrison Shoff https://github.com/h4rry http://twitter.com/hshoff
  • Dave Augustine https://github.com/daveaugustine http://twitter.com/daveaugustine
  • Andrew Vilcsak https://github.com/vilcsak http://twitter.com/vilcsak
• Other Technologies Used:
  • CoffeeScript
  • Handlebars
  • SASS
  • Backpack.js

Hotspot by Newicon

• Link: http://www.hotspot-app.com/
• Company: http://www.newicon.net/
• Description: Hotspot is a rapid prototyping tool enabling users to create an interactive visual experience of website and web application designs which can then be shared and reviewed with clients. It was very difficult to create the interactive UI experience that we wanted with jQuery alone as code became difficult to maintain. We knew we needed a method of structuring the application js code better but we wanted to find a solution that worked well with jQuery. Then we discovered backbone! We decided to rewrite the application using backbone models and views to create a clean separation of concerns, routers were used for navigation and the server exposed a simple REST based API making everything very clean, beautiful and easy to maintain.
• Authors:
  • Steve O'Brien https://github.com/steve-obrien http://twitter.com/Steven_OBrien http://steve-obrien.com/
• Other Technologies Used:
  • jQuery
  • jQuery UI
  • plupload
  • Underscore
  • OOCSS
  • PHP + Yii framework

Advanced Poker Clock

• Link: http://pokerclock.herokuapp.com
• Description: Fully customizable free poker tournament manager, which works on all the platforms and doesn't require any plugins or installation. Most complete statistics for rounds, blinds, chips, players and prizes.
• Author:
  • Dmitry Zhelnin https://github.com/whitered
• Other Technologies Used:
  • CoffeeScript
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Twitter Bootstrap

Backbone Module for Drupal

• Link: http://drupal.org/project/backbone
• Description: The Backbone module provides a foundation for the development of Backbone.js apps with Drupal. It contains classes for working with Drupal nodes, node listings and views in Backbone Apps, with more to come. Backbone's model/collection interface maps onto Drupal's node/view architecture transparently...it's a marriage made in web development heaven.
• Other Technologies Used:
  • Drupal
  • QUnit

Cloudnoi.se

• Link: http://cloudnoi.se
• Description: A browser based web radio that fetches Soundcloud popular tracks and generates playlists

Paydirt

• Link: https://paydirtapp.com
• Description: Online time tracking and invoicing software for browser-based freelancers. Paydirt uses Backbone.js for their time tracker, with the same code shared between the in-app time tracker and the Firefox and Chrome extensions.
• Other Technologies Used:
  • Ruby on Rails
  • CoffeeScript
  • jQuery

Cloudwords

• Link: http://www.cloudwords.com
• Description: The Cloudwords Translation Management Automation platform brings ease, transparency, and cost reduction to businesses looking for translation services. Using Backbone.js as the foundation, we've built a modern front-end architecture that is well-structured and delivers a fast and responsive user experience.
• Other Technologies Used:
  • Underscore.js
  • Require.js
  • jQuery

Later Dude

• Link: http://janpunktde.de/later-dude
• Description: Later Dude is a drag and drop based URI remembering tool living on Mac OS X's Dashboard. You just start dragging your item of choice, fire up the dashboard, and drop it on the widget. Later Dude stores a reference to the item for later use.
• Author:
  • Jan Raasch https://github.com/janraasch
• Other Technologies Used:
  • Underscore.js
  • jQuery

Pacifico Home Online Shop

• Link: https://www.pacificohome.ch
• Description: online shop.
• Author: Pacifico Home GmbH
• Other Technologies Used:
  • Ruby, Sinatra, Mustache
  • CouchDB
  • jQuery

Rdio

• Link: http://www.rdio.com
• Description: Rdio lets you listen to millions of songs ad-free wherever you are – on the web and on your phone, even offline.
• Author: Rdio, Inc.

Yay!Support

• Link: https://www.yaysupport.com
• Description: Yay!Support is why your customer thinks they're the only one.
• Author: Mysterious Trousers, LLC

LeFeed

• Link: http://www.lefeed.com
• Description: LeFeed is a facebook news feed organizer and recommendation application. It uses ANN algorithms to organize users news feed and creates recommended contents for the user by using Collaborative Filtering techniques.
• Author: Serdar Yildirim
• Other Technologies Used:
  • Ruby on Rails 3.2
  • CoffeeScript
  • Underscore.js
  • jQuery
  • Sass

Clickonero Mexico

• Link: http://www.clickonero.com.mx
• Description: ClickOnero is a Mexican website that features new offers every day for products and services from different companies.
• Author: Tomas Salazar
• Other Technologies Used:
  • Grails
  • Handlebars.js
  • jQuery
  • RequireJS

Nextdays

• Link: http://www.nextdays.com

• Company: Social Ark / Nextdays http://www.nextdays.com/about.html

• Description: Nextdays uses Backbone in its social event planning service. Our MongoDb-based models are mapped into Backbone.js Models and UI presented using Backbone Views. As its name tells, Backbone brings us order and structure to our web application.

• Authors:

  • Lauri Svan https://github.com/laurisvan http://twitter.com/laurisvan http://www.linkedin.com/in/laurisvan
  • Roope Rainisto http://twitter.com/rainisto http://www.linkedin.com/in/rainisto/
  • Joonas Tunturi http://www.linkedin.com/pub/joonas-tunturi/31/666/1b8

• Other Technologies Used:

  • MongoDB
  • Node.js (Express, Mongoose)
  • jQuery
  • Isotope.js
  • glDatePicker, dragdealer

Ginger

• Link: https://gingerhq.com/
• Company: http://lincolnloop.com/
• Description: Ginger is a group discussion tool that uses Backbone.js coupled with a Django API and realtime updates using Node.js.
• Other Technologies Used: Our tech stack

LocalEver & RentalEver by LocalEver

• Link: http://www.localever.com
• Link: http://www.rentalever.com
• Company: LocalEver Info Solutions Private Limited
• Description: LocalEver is a location based online market place to buy & sell residential/commercial properties, Automobiles and host of other products.
• Author:
  • Ramesh kumar v https://github.com/Rameshv http://twitter.com/rameshvel
• Other Technologies Used:
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Bootstrap Framework
  • Underscore.js
  • jQuery
  • MongoDB
  • solr
  • node.js & juggernaut

Flowdock

• Link: https://www.flowdock.com/
• Link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flowdock/id528568363
• Description: Flowdock is a communication tool for teams. It's replaces a group chat (such as Skype chat or IRC), and connects to email, project management systems, version control systems and others. Flowdock uses Backbone.js to power the mobile client.
• Other Technologies Used:
  • jQuery and jQuery UI
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Ruby/EventMachine
  • Node.js
  • Socket.io
  • Redis
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB

Trackthisforme

• Link: http://www.trackthisfor.me/ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/idhnbkgipnoeleceefjpekblfpcnjlcl
• Description: Trackthisforme is a simple way to track whatever you want, like hours slept, cups of waters that you drink everyday, n° of pushups... It's free and easy to use.
• Other Technologies Used:
  • Ruby on Rails
  • jQuery
  • Flot (jQuery plugin)
  • Heroku
  • Twitter Bootstrap
  • CoffeeScript
• Author:
  • Francesco Marassi https://github.com/urcoilbisurco http://twitter.com/urcoilbisurco http://urco.me/;

Percolate

• Link: http://percolate.com/
• Company: http://percolate.com/
• Description: Percolate helps brands create content at social scale.
• Authors:
  • Guillaume Mathieu http://guillaumemathieu.com/
• Other Technologies Used:
  • Python
  • Django
  • Redis
  • MySQL
  • Memcache
  • RabbitMQ

Ispikit

• Link: http://www.ispikit.com
• Description: Ispikit helps English learners improve their pronunciation online. Using speech technologies, pronunciation is automatically and accurately assessed. It is available in the web browser, making use of a browser plug-in, as well as on Android.
• Other Technologies Used:
  • FireBreath
  • bootstrap
  • Speech recognition

Nike+ Website

• Link: http://nikeplus.nike.com/plus/
• Description: In June 2012, Nike launched a totally redesigned Nike+ website. The Nike+ website allows users to track various activities like running and share this data with people in the Nike+ community or with Twitter and Facebook. Nike switched from an all flash based site to a HTML5 powered site. By doing this, the site loads much faster and it works on a wider range of mobile devices. Backbone is used all over the place; from the user preferences and profile screens, to the page that allows users to see a list of their friends.

Team Dashboard

• Link: http://http://fdietz.github.com/team_dashboard/
• Description: Team Dashboard lets you visualize your team's metrics all in one place. It is build to be shown on a big screen in your team's space.
• Image: http://fdietz.github.com/team_dashboard/images/team_dashboard1_medium.png
• Authors:
  • Frederik Dietz https://twitter.com/fdietz
• Other Technologies Used:
  • Rails
  • jQuery
  • d3
  • rickshaw.js

HipDial Easy Conference Calls

• Link: https://www.hipdial.com
• Description: HipDial is the easiest way to do conference calls, both for you and for the participants. Dial a normal phone number and you’re in. There’s no reservation, no setup, no PIN codes and no software installation.
• Authors:
  • Jonas Huckestein https://twitter.com/jonas
• Other Technologies Used:
  • Rails
  • jQuery
  • nodejs
  • Twilio