Not startups, but projects: - https://github.com/jhadjar/uniflex https://github.com/jhadjar/uniflex: enables a subscriber of a telco company to send airtime to

Not startups, but projects: - https://github.com/jhadjar/uniflex https://github.com/jhadjar/uniflex: enables a subscriber of a telco company to send airtime to a subscriber of another telco company, which telco companies don't allow directly. I learned to research: the code worked for me using Gammu and 3G dongles of multiple telco operators, however, a "normal" SIM cannot send airtime to an "airtime merchant SIM", which would have been needed to make it work in the real world. I could have had this information in one conversation with airtime shop owners. - https://jhadjar.wordpress.com/2016/04/09/leoculus-automotive-video-interface-project https://jhadjar.wordpress.com/2016/04/09/leoculus-automotive... and https://github.com/jhadjar/Leoculus https://github.com/jhadjar/Leoculus: Leoculus is an interface (project) to display analog video from a Rear View Camera on car monitors that only accept digital video (Peugeot S.A., Tesla Motors, etc.). I learned to make time and invest on things I wanted to actually do and to build for people I like to interact with. I originally started thinking about it because a friend at the time had an after-market accessory install, but I don't particularly like that vibe/space. - One project for a friend who worked in the finance department at a telco company who used Excel to compute some things, look-up vendors/accounts, fill-out cheques, etc. I built the thing and it worked. I asked my friend then how much his company would pay for it, and his manager, although loving the product and wanting to get it told him they will not pay for it, but it would be really great if they could get it. I learned to say "fuck off". - One project for a friend of a friend who worked at an organization of 60,000+ people who had a FileMaker thing to manage careers and the thing showed its limit. I started researching the thing to help. The data is sensitive. There was a quick and dirty prototype. I learned from my earlier projects and asked how much they would pay for it and he said nothing. Leveraging the skills I learned on my telco project, I said "fuck off". - Another project for someone doing dental prostethics who needed to sell a product but who was ignored by wholesalers. I asked him questions at 2AM in a forest on all these products, got me some samples, had spectrography done, noticed they're quite the same, and researched the topic (polymerization and stuff). I stopped it right there because the margins are really low and I leveraged what I learned on not working in a space that I don't like.