nxtbgthng

We make Mac and iOS applications.

Client Apps

Who we are

We are a small team specialized in Cocoa development for Mac, iPhone and iPad. Our home is Berlin, and if you want to drop by, you can find us at the SoundCloud Office in Rosenthaler Straße 13. If you prefer the electronic way, you can reach all of us at team@nxtbgthng.com.

News

Semperoper Dresden

Do you like Opera or Ballet? The iPhone app for the Semperoper Dresden, our newest client work in collaboration with Fons Hickmann m23 is now available in the App Store.
SoundCloud 2.0 is out - Now for iPad, too

We are very proud to announce that the version 2.0 the SoundCloud app is avaible in the App Store - including iPad support.
EdenSpiekermann case study about development of the Carhartt Radio app

The folks at EdenSpiekermann published a case study about their work with us on the Carhartt Radio app. Thanks guys!
Carhartt Radio available

We teamed up with the awesome folks at EdenSpiekermann to make an iPhone App for Carhartt Radio. With this app you can listen to mixes produced by DJs and artists exclusively for the Carhartt Radio show on the go. Enjoy the sound!
MAN IAA 2010

Find your way around the International Automobil Ausstellung 2010 with MAN’s interactive guide for your iPhone and iPod touch. The guide includes floor plans, travel tips and everything you need to know to find your way around the IAA and it’s host city Hannover.
sleek Art Guide Berlin

Discover the well known and the hidden art scene in Berlin. The sleek Art Guide Berlin offers a highly subjective art guide through the art scene of Berlin. The guide is put together and updated by sleek Magazine and includes gorgous photos of the places and people who are the heart of the Berlin art community.
Irony Detector released!

Yes, you read that right. We just released the worlds first working irony detector, and what better place is there to sell something like this, then the AppStore? Except that it is not sold. Yes, it’s free! It’s a collaboration between us and the design geniuses at signalfeuer. But what are you waiting for? Try it!
Concerts 1.5 just hit the AppStore

The new release of the Concerts App adds a lot of features that users requested: Integration with your Last.fm account, personal recommendations, superfast city search, highlighting of genres and artists in your iPod, and you can keep track of the concerts you want to attend. And the best of all: It’s a free update.

Partners & Clients

We concentrate on development, concepts and consulting, so we usually join forces with great partners and clients.

Here's some of them, in alphabetical order:

Clients

Carhartt WIP – Carhartt Radio App
MAN – IAA 2010 iPhone App
Netvico – "Play Everywhere"-Framework
Sächsiche Staatsoper Dresden – Semperoper Dresden App
SoundCloud – iOS & Mac OS X Apps & Frameworks
sleek Magazine – Art Guide iPhone App
T-Systems – App Development

Partners

Contronix – Hardware development
EdenSpiekermann – Design
Fons Hickmann m23 – Design
Jens Nikolaus – Design
Signalfeuer – Design
Stefan Nitzsche - Web

Openness

We believe in open communication and that a free flow of ideas helps everyone.

So you can usually find us at all kinds of Barcamps, at Likemind and Cocoaheads.

We have some projects that are open source, so if you want to see our code, you should take a look:

NSLog is where we write about our adventures with Xcode and other development tools.
The SoundCloud API Wrapper provides a lean but powerful way to connect to the SoundCloud API from Mac or iPhone Applications. SoundGrid and FiRe are among the apps that use them.
The SoundCloud Streaming Framework enables you to develop applications that continuously stream music from SoundCloud. It's used in the superb Citysounds.fm.
The Objective-C OAuth2 client library for iOS and Mac OS X.
And more juicy stuff on our GitHub page.