OBJECTIVE: Make
available to owners, contractors and end-users robust
software packages that are inexpensive ($40 - $80) and
can pay
for themselves in one (1) project.
WHO: Peter
Buitenhek started Profit Developer.com as a small company
that markets five (5)
Microsoft© hosted Excel™ spreadsheet software
products. The programs are Excel™ based and require the
user to
own Excel™, but do not require
the
user to be a spreadsheet expert or user. All
inputs
are easy dollar, quantity or percent fill-ins.
WHERE: Profit
Developer.com started in San Diego, California. Sales
of the products are worldwide.
WHEN: We started as a software design company
in February 2003. However, the design of the proprietary
Horizontal Communications
Cabling bidding software
started in 1994 followed by the start of the Cable
Bidding /Tracking software suite in
1996
which we
used
in
our
business.
WHAT: There are five (5) software packages:
BidPro (labor/material/subcontractors/cost/sell/profit/GPM/ROI),
TrakPro (track contract to actual costs/profit/GPM/),
AttendancePro (up to 50 technicians), CablePro (horizontal
communications cabling bid/costs/sell/profit/GPM/ROI)
and ConduitPro (BICSI/EIA conduit and trough cable
fill).
WHY: Many
programs we found required sophisticated servers, proprietary
code, SME (subject matter expert) support that didn't exactly
give us what we needed and they were always very $$ costly.