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May I ask what the projects were?
by bencollier49 5y ago
May I ask what the projects were?
- rlawson 5y agoCar reservation system for auto dealers (never got traction) Covid screening application (sold) Inventory management (initial clients in alcohol beverage bottling/distribution)
- raihansaputra 5y agoDo you have any recommended readings/resources to help with data modelling? Especially regarding reservation/scheduling and inventory management?
- rlawson 5y agoThe reservation app was super simple so no real guidance there I'd recommend really getting familiar with the Django ORM so that you understand how it generates the schema and how to tweak it to get what you want. As far as inventory management - I looked at several opensource projects and tried to understand their schema and use cases. Not just Django ones but other languages like PHP - PartKeepr for example. Inventory management is surprisingly complicated to do in a generic way.
- raihansaputra 5y agoThanks for the pointers! Yeah generalizing inventory management is very confusing. I tried looking into Oodo but can't get my head around the data modeling. It feels like trying to implement double-entry accounting, but the money can rot/be broken/gone for other reasons.
- tcrow 5y agoCongrats on making a return on your investment! may I ask how you went about locating a buyer for the screener app?
- rlawson 5y agoAsked one of the local investors and got steered to another company that was in the same business altho much bigger. Really just plain luck and I guess having a decent network.
- ehutch79 5y agoThe most difficult part of inventory management is convincing employees that telling the system that 40000 units moved when only 38732 units moved is a problem
- redact207 5y agoMay I ask how you discovered those two profitable niches? Did you already have contacts working there that just told you about it or did you go about hunting it down somehow?