Software Business in the Middle East

Together with my friends we started working as software developers when we were third-year students. Once we met discussing the idea of starting up our own business – that discussion was the first and the last as we couldn’t find a product we would develop and sell.

Now I feel that generation of the potential product ideas is one of the simplest tasks. Another thing is that you definitely should not implement all those product ideas, but it is different exercise.

We are getting new ideas simply developing our own product. I’ll give just a few examples that might end up as new software.

Connection to the database

It is not only us who got requirements to support different Database Management Systems like Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL and MS Access as minimum requirements as well as ODBC connections to any database in addition. I’ve failed to find a good product that we could buy and build into our own software.

SQL Query Builder in your product

It is not only us who would like to have built-in SQL Query Builder in our product so that our users would be able to select tables and views in their database and build SQL statements visually, just like in MS Access. So far I’ve seen only Active Query Builder but that’s all.

Auto program updater

Couple years back when we started developing our product we made automatic program update ourselves. To be honest, it didn’t work very well, and it didn’t work for some of the customers. Finally, we understood that it’s easier to spend a few hundred dollars to buy a tool for auto updates rather than to spend time on non-core functionality for our software.

We played with many options and finally selected pretty simple auto update software AutoUpdate+. This program is nice, but some features are not very straightforward, and they might be implemented simpler way. It means there is room for a new auto update software.

There are other ideas for the new products we got, but we would rather leave them for ourselves for future implementation

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