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Creating an icon would be one of the most difficult task we tackled in Bootyard. Sure we could just add up letters, color them with bright attractive colors and take it as our icon, but that’s not how we do things. We started Bootyard with the mindset of creating a company that would do great things, things that would impact people even after our lifetime. The icon should symbolize that kind of mindset. As batman himself said, “A man is just flesh and blood and can be ignored or destroyed. But as a symbol… as a symbol, I can be incorruptible, everlasting.”

So we started mocking up, first with letters then with trains and then combined letters and trains.

History of Bootyard Logo

And then we came up with Pilot. The first of it’s kind.

Yes, I know he’s a cutie, and you see Pilot as a cute little robot holding a little yellow wrench. But for us here in Bootyard, we look at Pilot and we see the commitment that we made to ourselves, “to create the best Ruby on Rails Development and Web Design shop”. A company that someday would create great things that would surpass our own lifetime.

And with this I leave you with the words of Pilot, “Let’s start building!”

Foodtoki is a startup idea of Bootyard. It is an online food directory for food establishments located in popular tourist destinations in the Philippines. And we will start by building a food directory for Cebu.

I believe that it's better to explain things visually so instead of creating a powerpoint presentation, I made a video. So here's a short animation explaining what Foodtoki is all about. The animation cast are Pen as "The Tourist" and Pilot as "The Chef". 

The video was presented during the graduation of the 2nd Batch of the Pre-Incubation Program of CeBuinIT last June 29, 2012 in UP Cebu AVR. 

P.S. This video animation was made a day before the event with no prior knowledge how to animate things so please keep your expectations low. hehe ;)