About us

At tap tap tap, we develop our creations by sticking with several important principles:

• Your tasks should be accomplished with just a few taps (hence the name “tap tap tap”)
• Everything should be simple and intuitive for you to use
• Everything should look amazing
• High quality software doesn’t have to cost you a lot
• Love what you do and it’ll show in the things you create
• And last, but not least… there should be some fun thrown into the mix

Founders

tap tap tap is headed-up by two-time Apple Design Award winner, John Casasanta. John’s a long-time Mac developer and the creator of MacHeist, the #1 Mac software promotion site. Although born a programmer, John’s well past his coding prime now and can’t be trusted around a compiler these days without the proper supervision.

Since John has worked together with lead designer Wolfgang Bartelme on several projects in the past… all with stellar results… he felt that Wolfgang would be the perfect person to turn tap tap tap’s concepts into graphic reality. And he couldn’t be happier with the results. Our design sessions have become one of the most loved parts of doing our business. Wolfgang is the principal of Bartelme Design.

To round-out the primary team, John recruited his MacHeist partner in crime, Scott Meinzer, to work his web magic to make this site that you’re looking at now actually happen. Beyond his web duties that he so often shirks, Scott’s been instrumental in UI and app design.

Team Munchies

Phill Ryu, serial entrepreneur / yet another MacHeist partner, teamed up with Andrew “Kaz” Kazmierski, to create the eBook hit, Classics. When Kaz was a wee lad of just 13, he developed the precursor to one of the most influential Mac apps of all time, Delicious Library, which has won its share of Apple Design Awards.

Contractors

Daniel Pasco is the CEO of Black Pixel, an iPhone software company in Seattle, Washington. He studied mathematics and astronautical engineering in college and got his start writing software for several different spacecraft in the Mars Surveyor and Discovery programs. When John saw that Daniel actually listed “rocket scientist” on his résumé, he knew Daniel was the person destined to develop our upcoming app, plasma.

Kevin Packard is the principal of Blackfrog Software. John met Kevin through a Mac software contract for IBM waaaaay back in 1999. You’d think that working at IBM would be all stodgy and boring, but it was actually at IBM’s T J Watson Research Center, where many really cool technologies were born. Kevin and John have remained in contact throughout the years, occasionally getting together for buffalo wings / beer / geek talk. So when John was looking for someone with great coding chops and a great UI sensibility, he knew that Kevin would be perfect for the role. Kevin’s heading up development on our upcoming app, Convert.

Mostly Lisa

Lisa Bettany, AKA Mostly Lisa, handles all of our video needs. She’s one of the busiest people on the planet… when she's not out taking in one of her favorite passions, photography, she can often be seen on one of the many tech podcasts including TWiP (This Week in Photography), MacBreak, MacBreak Weekly, TWIT (This Week in Tech). Lisa’s evil twin has also been spotted around the MacHeist headquarters. And what she’d want more than anything in this world is for you to follow her on Twitter.

Alumni

Sophia Teutschler is the creator of the Mac iTunes controller, CoverSutra. She and John were the original founders of tap tap tap, but after the two got to the point where they had too many irreconcilable differences, they decided to split up and go their separate ways. Sophia’s now gone back to the simple software development life and creates Mac and iPhone apps under her Sophiestication brand.