10 Years XL

It all started 11 years ago. I still remember the boom of mobile and social media from back then, a period when everything changed really fast. Innovation and VC funding for startups was peaking, and opportunities grew everywhere. All of...

10 Things We've Learned After 10 Years Running A Tech Agency

Choosing to pursue a business in technology is often a difficult road with many changes and challenges. And if you think about it, startups have a flop rate of 90%; getting discouraged can be easy. Yet, the tech industry continues...

What's going on with crypto? (TC Disrupt 2021)

TechCrunch Disrupt is synonymous with trends and innovation. Fintech is an industry with considerable excitement since blockchain evolution is creating opportunities that startups are trying to leverage daily, and investors are trying to get that significant return. This hype...

What TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 Taught Us About the Startup Landscape

Like in 2020, TC Disrupt took a digital format this year due to covid and the new delta variant hitting the US. However, the event managed to keep its essence: entrepreneurship, success stories, and alternative ways to adapt to this...

Our take on Testing UY 2021

Testing UY emerges in the year 2014 as a way to promote Testing in Uruguay and the region. The conference is 100% free and gathers groups of experts in different areas of knowledge, such as SQA, UI/UX, Management, among...

Hindsight 20/20 - our year through the eyes of our team

How was the year for us? What did we achieve during 2020? An extremely challenging year for everyone; we were forced to leave our beautiful offices and stay at home for most of the year. Our team adapted quickly and...

How to stay mentally and physically healthy during covid-19 quarantine

We are now in the midst of a globalized pandemic, which is pretty much new for all of us. That’s why every day we find ourselves feeling exhausted by trying to make...

What happened at AppBuilders?

After months of the uncertainty of how a fully online conference would work, and a lot of hard work from multiple teams around the world in order to make it work. I must say this has been one of the...

We will be speaking about how we run OSS at App Builders 2020 conference!

AppBuilders Speakers! We are happy to announce that we will take part of the AppBuilders conference on May 12th at 11:45 am (GMT+1) and in this post we will talk about how we got there and how Covid-19 impacted...

Our very first Hackathon!

Last month Xmartlabs held its very first hackathon! For those who are not familiar with the concept, a hackathon is an event where everyone who is involved in software development -be it graphic designers, project managers, software developers, etc- come...

TechCrunch Disrupt 2017 - Takeaways of one of tech's most important events of the year

The event A few weeks ago our team attended TechCrunch Disrupt SFO. Although this wasn’t our first time at the event, we got there with great expectations. We already knew...

The First Eureka Webinar

Eureka is Xmartlabs’ elegant form builder for Swift iOS, built and refined for the open source community to accelerate the development cycle and produce cleaner code. There are over 14k apps currently...

XMARTLABS chosen to speak at "Swift With The Best"

This Saturday, June 25th, the world’s top Swift developers will unite at Swift With The Best, the largest online conference series for mobile developers. Our team will have two speakers at the conference. Mathias Claassen will talk about

You've won a WWDC 2015 Scholarship

I know a lot of time has passed since the last WWDC, but still, I wanted to share my first WWDC experience. Hope you like it....

Xmartlabs Open Source Culture

Since the past two years we have been in the world of OSS releasing different projects and contributing to community projects through bug reports and fixes, you can check out all our projects at Xmartlabs Github account. At Xmartlabs...

Speakers at JIAP 2013

Tomorrow we will be part of an event organized by the Uruguayan Computer Professionals Association known as JIAP 2013. With 4.000+ attendees is one of the main tech events in Uruguay, and takes place in...

WWDC 2013 - Apple Worldwide Developers Conference - June 10-14, San Francisco

The most important apple developers conference is coming. The 2013 edition will be starting next Monday, and apple will be introducing the new products and software features. For this year, there is huge expectation about iOS 7, the most...

Summary: RubyConf UY 2013

Xmartlabs at RubyConf Uruguay 2013

We are very happy to announce that Xmartlabs is Silver Sponsor of the RubyConf Uruguay, which will take place at Torre de las Telecomunicaciones auditorium in Montevideo, on March 22-23. Maximo and Martin will...

Xmartlabs moves to LATU

We are very happy to announce that Xmartlabs is moving to Ingenio Business Incubator, located in the Technology Laboratory of Uruguay (LATU). Ingenio has the financial support of the Multilateral Investment Fund (FOMIN), the Inter-American Development Bank...

Xmartlabs in Startup Weekend Montevideo

Startup Weekend Montevideo took place: an event organized all over the world in which local entrepreneurs participate in the process of making a startup in two days. Of course, Xmartlabs was there. In Uruguay, this event...

Welcome!

Hi everybody, be welcomed to the xmartlabs blog. The idea of this blog is to post some insights of our work and share tips and data related to the projects we tackle. We will also keep it updated with info...