Welcome, I’m a person who develops software in my spare time (I’m on a retirement income, so I have plenty of it). Some of it I sell, but so far it hasn’t made any profits (at per-app sale price, that would take a lot). My current main app is a seating chart app for education use (it’s not an education app, it doesn’t teach anything), and it seems most of the sales are in August-September period each year, and some other sales scattered throughout the year.
Programming Software as a Hobby and Business
Student Centered Class Asst. (<- click to visit) (est. 2017)
iPhone/iPad App (2017-present) is designed for educators to use in classrooms, featuring an interactive seating chart for homework and attendance, and behavior tracking. It also features the creation of random groups, and evenly random student picks (featuring student photos if available as of v4.9). A high school science teacher in my family requested this app. It’s only on IOS now (android app discontinued) and on IOS (Apple), I have at least 194 customers (as of Late-April 2025).. And of those 194, 75 of those customers purchased between April 2024 and April 2025 (works out to about 1 sale every 5 days, not bad considering this product is only intended for use by educators – a relatively limited market), though the price has varied (and still may). From time to time it gets ranked in the top 500 apps in the paid utiliies category (out of about 2 million App Store apps), on April 13, 2025 it reached Rank #421 on iPhone, though other days it is unranked. Get it on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/student-centered-class-asst/id1278771321
FMail for Windows Store (est. 2012)
From 2012 to 2014, this was a POP3 e-mail client for Windows (from when its mail app lacked pop3 support). This one earned me a few thousand $ on the side. I wrote this is C# with “Windows Metro”.
Contract: Contact Management for Windows (est. 2006)
I worked with Anritsu (2006-2008) to develop a contact management App for Windows (with a PHP/MySQL Back-end to store contacts remotely). This tracked field service technicians for all the major cell phone carriers, displayed in a heirarchy (tree) format (with drag a drop repositioning). This was written in C# on the front end with, again, PHP on server side.
Contract: Tribunal/Dispensation Management System (late 1990s)
1998-2003 Contracted with NAV Co., LLC to codevelop case management software sold to Catholic Diocese Offices. I visited the NYC, Syracuse, and Atlanta Diocese offices to help get the software up and running. This software did things like track annulment cases using Canon Law rules and generated reports to be sent to the Vatican (“Rome Report”). This was written in Borland Delphi, which was also known as Object Pascal.
Filtrob Message Filter (IOS) (est. 10/19/2024)
Block and Allow keyword text message spam filter for IOS. I wrote this because I needed it (similar products were available, but they charged a monthly fee). I made it available in the App Store, but it was designed for my own use.
I earned the CompTIA A+ Certification back around 2001, but it seems to still be valid as of May 2024. The logo is pretty, so I’m adding it here. Many of my other certifications from back then have been retired (Certified Novell Engineer 5, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer [NT4], and Linux Professional Institute Certified Level 1 [expired 2008]). For fun, I might take some new certification exams as time allows.
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