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I scratched my own itch. I've worked for about ten years as a civil engineer in the water industry; I create computer models of water networks for utilities. T
by lbutler 7y ago
I scratched my own itch.
I've worked for about ten years as a civil engineer in the water industry; I create computer models of water networks for utilities. The software is expensive, and the UI/UX is terrible, typically of software for large corporations.
Part of building a model is calibrating it against real-life data, to do this you restricting valves or roughen pipes in the model. While a model simulation only takes a fraction of a second, validating results can take a minute or two because of the bad UI/UX.
I create a web app to simulate the water model in your browser and for it to run as you make changes with all the relevant data upfront.
https://calibrate.modelcreate.com/ https://calibrate.modelcreate.com/
I had a project with 80 hours set aside for calibration; I completed it all in 8 hours with my app.
I'm testing the market now to see if others would want to use it. If so, then I will look at commercialisation options and see if it's worth developing further. (Sorry for a LinkedIn post below, this is where all the civil engineers hang out, and I've already got some validation on it)
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lukepbutler_water-infoworks-epanet-activity-6567248865798557696-0cvO https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lukepbutler_water-infoworks-e...
Work long enough in an industry, and you will find endless ideas to work on, the only question is will people use them and also pay for it.
- relaunched 7y agoI use the same approach. I wrote about my latest project, a task manager for the post UI world, www.iprompted.com You can read about how I came up with the idea here: https://www.iprompted.com/blog/scratching-my-own-itch https://www.iprompted.com/blog/scratching-my-own-itch