The mission was to deliver a simple solution for the problem:


How can I optimize my personal cloud storage - for free?

So simple - so generic. Enter the world of crypto in the browser.
Spoiler: It's complicated!

 but we wanted to create a seamless experience for the user and lower the hurdles to test our app. And what's easier to access than a slick web app (of course a Progressive Web App).

We choose a rather popular stack (mostly inspired by the great 

 - which is currently undergoing a redesign despite of technical issues, but more on this later).

Wait, what? Yes, you read correct: We decided to erase the backend. Because 

Ok so let's take a closer look what (almost) nothing on the backend means.

Of course there is a server that hosts the website (consisting of JavaScript - transpiled from TypeScript, CSS, assets - like images, etc.).
In the case of 

. There are a ton of pros and cons, we decided very pragmatically: We already had some experience on Firebase, so lets use Firebase Hosting because it fits our (very basic) needs to serve JavaScript files and other assets fast.

: To optimize performance we are currently working on next-gen image formats

Browser HTTP(S) GETs JavaScript, CSS and assets

Progressive Web App is rendered in the browser

As soon as the PWA is ready in the browser - on the average this happens X ms after surfing to 

 to upload the encrypted data chunks to different cloud storage services.

But this is basically all functionality on the backend: 

All other functionality happens right in the PWA - on the client side, to be highly secure and absolutely performant!

Stay tuned how we implemented to frontend or drop us a line if you have any questions or feedback!

The road to backendless (somewhere between serverless and decentralized)

Cross-platform app for Windows and macOS that enables a modern, fast and encrypted app for doctors managing their offices.

Managing your office swiftly and efficiently is hard. Doing that while using a fully encrypted database with realtime sync is even harder. Packaging it all with a modern, robust and efficient UX would just be a dream come true.

Designing an application that will be used by doctors to manage their office is quite a hard task: patients's data has to be reliably encrypted, yet query performance should be next to lightspeed. We analyzed the field of databases intensively and tested a wide range of available solutions.

As an additional constraint, the database had to be usable in a Node.js-environment, as the final product would use the Electron framework to enable a cross-platform, React-powered app  that would allow fast iteration and as-is reusability of the client code.

The DB that checked all the boxes was Realm: an encrypted database with very fast queries (especially for complex compound ones) and a realtime sync via a hosted platform, also provided by Realm.

And we're only getting started: as every designer knows, understanding the context your work has to live in is one of the most important aspects during the creation process. It's just a waste of everyone's time, money and effort if your product doesn't fullfill a user's needs 100 %.

We therefore worked in close collaboration with Prof. Dr. Armin Witt, a highly skilled and respected gynaecologist who's also teaching at Vienna's MedUni (medical university). It's thanks to this great and very productive teamwork that we were able to build a medical application for managing a doctor's office with a real user's insight from start to finish.

To ensure the UX behaves realibly and serves the user 100 %, the team built upon the guidelines of Material Design, an open source design system that is trusted and used by many applications. 

After a development time of about 1.5 years, medoboard 1.0 got released. We've created a solution that enables management of a doctor's office as fast, easy and securely as possible, all while providing a great user expierence.

Electron as the cross-platform framework to use a React-driven client in a Node.js environment. Realm DB as the database with a ground-truth-instance in the cloud and realtime sync.

medoboard - manage your office

Manage the whole doctor's office, incl. taxation.

medoboard

Kickscale helps and consults companies to be more successful at conferences and trade shows. Currently under active development, so technical details will follow! Stay tuned!

Kickscale - Intelligently scheduled

Kickscale helps and consults companies to be more successful at conferences and trade shows.

SecureBeam

SecureBeam - the road to backendless (one step beyond serverless and right before decentralized)

🧑🏿‍💻 The Journey