Digital Solutions from Matt Hanley
Innovative, Custom Websites, Apps, Content
MH is a talented web designer / developer whose completed projects for the Chicago Board of Trade, The New York Times, and the City of New York among many others.
See the blog for recent projects like the weather widget.
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Check out the portfolio for some primo examples.
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Founder of Menu for Here, making ordering easier at restaurants.
Event Management Systems
Powering several New York Times sites. Learn More
Further ecomm endeavors with Lane Bryant, Allyance
eJukes.com
Making music spin with free virtual record players for artists to share songs.
Success at The NYT
Coding hundreds of Landing Pages ...
Led to an 8x increase in Paid Subs
During the MH tenure (2011-2017) as lead developer at The New York Times Marketing Services, paid subscribers increased from one half to 4 million.
In Finance
Entrusted to build websites and solutions for numerous financial companies.
CSS for NYC's Municipal Credit Union
Javascript App for Chicago Board of Trade
Content strategy for Bruderman Brothers
A New Way to Poll Patrons
Turnkey customer survey system, TwoWayStreet.app.
With TwoWayStreet, orgs make 'sharing opportunities' that take the shape of selecting, removing, ranking, rating a set of things.
Beautiful charts of results are generated.
Early Aughts Award Winners
Matt teamed with Scott Crutcher of Axis Interactive to build these websites that earned mention in the annual Creativity journal.
MH programmed the backend inc. a custom CMS for children's clothier Baby Lulu of Los Angeles.
MH first use of .NET / Microsofot SQL .
MH programmed the backend inc. a custom CMS for Grammy Winner's website.
Innovative use of Flash with PHP / Mysql .
Created a blog, Coffee Or Beer, to explore people's habits, tendencies, rules regarding consuming beer or coffee.
Also wrote feature articles, interviews with innovators in the coffee and beer worlds.
See the feature on the Bronx Brewery back when it was new in 2012.
Fun & Games
Horse Walks into a Bar
the old joke "horse walks into a bar.." set to the music of Three's Company.
Subway Simulator
Want to experience the randomness of a subway trip? Try the NYC Subway Game by MH. Your goal: get to 33rd street and exit the train.
Ready to Make Something?
You can trust a straight-forward, honest approach to your queries and challenges.
Connect with Matt on LinkedIn ... or send a note to mail@mhmakes.com
Event Software
While at the Times, MH wrote code to hanlde TimesTalks, Film Club, LookWest, Taste of T, and more. Fun fact: the kernel of the code is the same as the Bit Tracker 2000 web app MH wrote for comediens, which morphed into Let Sister.
The SmartSeller eComm / siteBuilder
Made a shopping cart program as they were then called. Integrated with Authorize.net, PayPal, UPS.. It had no shortage of advantages over the market leader, MivaMerchant. A lot of the features were new at the time, including multi-level categories. Biggest thrill was enabling orders to be forward to fax machines, at the request of a restaurant.