Leaving Cecil to Go Founder Mode (Again)

I left my engineering teaching job at Cecil College to work on Such Software full time. It's not the first company I've run, just the first time it's the only thing I'm doing.

The earlier ones:

• Patrn LLC / art101.io: a crowdfunding platform for NFTs. We put out 35,000+ NFTs across twelve collections, free on Ethereum, ~$2.5M in secondary volume.
• Tabby Labs: a cryptocurrency wallet with a game world inside it, incorporated in Delaware to raise VC.
• Wownero: launched in 2018 as a joke, still running.

None made me money to speak of. What they did was teach me how to ship to real users and live with my own decisions, which you don't get to do as an employee.

Teaching was good and I'll miss the students. It also made me a better engineer. When you have to explain something to a room of people who don't already get it, you find out quickly which parts you actually understand. The accessibility focus at Such Software comes from the same place: if it has to work for a whole class, it has to work for everyone.

What Such Software does: accessible web apps and e-commerce, my own apps and nuclear edutainment games, and nuclear and radiation modeling consulting. The consulting is the odd one out. The reason I can do it is what's behind it: a PhD in radiation-detector materials, six years at a national lab, a short run optimizing spent-fuel cask loading, and the Monte Carlo work that came with all of it.

If you've got something in that range, that's what Such Software is for.