We learned something from all of those trade shows. For every
group with a new product to show, there are a dozen people who leave the show planning on copying it.
Good ideas are hard to come by.
We’ve had more than our share of good ideas, and good ideas that were copied. Therefore we won’t go into too much detail about the products under development which include:
A simulation product that should have a positive impact on personal safety (and is fun to use)
A set of Mail and Information Routing products that should also provide an interesting solution to the recognition of spam
Information management tools
We are also considering re-releasing or making a general release a pair of products that had been part of previous releases.
The Admissions Officer Simulation that was done as part of CollegeWhere and enhanced as part of a startup effort that
ran out of cash when the dotCom bubble burst. The product will be able to predict the likelihood of a students admission chances at most of the 4-year US colleges. A financial aid
module may be included.
We are considering a commercial version of WaveSaver that will allow Facility Managers to reduce water, energy and waste processing costs.
We are hoping to develop these last two as part of a non-profit corporation that will be able to sustain, enhance, and support a potential suite of high value, high quality educational and publicly
beneficial products and components.
Products, time, sponsership or grant monies and organizational input are all welcome. Please contact us.
Envision a bug-free world
The highest hurdles to us releasing products is our strict set of testing criteria.
There are enough freeware, shareware, and high priced “bad” products flooding the net. We’d rather not add to the morass.
Non-profit commercial products
We are considering starting a non-profit spin-off to distribute high quality, supported tools and products. If anyone is interested donating to the product pool, please get in touch.
Profitable open source?
We haven’t figured out how the open source revolution makes good business sense (for the author at least). Giving away software so you can charge $100 an hour to fix bugs, answer questions and do
installations only seems to work if you leave enough bugs in the code to support yourself.
We learned something from all of those trade shows. For every
group with a new product to show, there are a dozen people who leave the show planning on copying it.
