I was working as a contractor on client projects for a couple of months during the spring of 2024. Now I’m back at my laptop working on InvMon. I’m developing and testing both on my new M2 powerbook as well as on my old Dell… Read More »Juli 2024 – The Final Stretch
For the first time, I’m approaching a level of “feature-completeness”. After a number of re-iterations, the scope of the first InvMon beta version has been fixed. Ninety percent of the functionality is there. It looks like I’ll be able to distribute a first beta version… Read More »March 2024 – Light at the end of the tunnel
InvMon started today three years ago. That’s when I had the idea for the project. I remember the moment. I was sitting on a sun bed in Tenerifa, Canarias, waiting for the flight to take us back to Basel Switzerland. Back home I bought a… Read More »December 2023 – Project Dark Age
Like mentioned in the posts earlier this year, A2PB has taken a turn. I was able to spend some time over the summer planning and coding and have come up with an updated product scope and road map. Here are some key take-aways: InvMon is… Read More »September 2023 – InvMon It Is!
There was a burst of activity (A2PB coding) over Christmas. But otherwise, the code hasn’t made a lot of progress because I was working on client projects generating some cash. Some of that cash M. and I will be spending on an Easter weekend trip… Read More »April 2023 – Slow Progress, New Logo
A lot has happened over the past three months! A2PB is moving from a project to a product. I finally figured out what a product built around A2PB might look like. This is a big step triggered by some key ideas I had during a… Read More »January 2023 – A2PB is on a Mission
nCubate Software GmbH bought all the rights to A2PB including the complete source code from Tom Studer. Since I own 100% of nCubate, this is, practically speaking, not a big change. The transaction does however facilitate future development and commercialization of the software as there… Read More »September 2022 – nCubate Buys A2PB
Initial A2PB development slowly comes to an end. The goal is to finalize the last features by mid September (a considerable big one was just added recently – see my last post). Over the past few months, I put quite some thought into possible ways… Read More »August 2022 – nCubate & Next Steps
The A2PB beta version as of June 2022 allowed the user to to add multiple account objects, assign a base currency and attach the current account value. This made it possible to manage and display a user’s total asset value across all of his or… Read More »July 2022 – KPIs and Asset Tracking
In May of 2022 an opportunity came up to participate in an IT project innovation contest hosted by the Swiss consulting company nag Business Consulting. That was great timing as my plan for May was to get word out about A2PB anyway. I decided submit… Read More »Runner-Up in an Innovation Contest