January 01, 2013

Granite Apps - Starting a Company

#Granite Apps

At the start of 2013 I left Ontario Sheep and moved to Kitchener, Ontario. The city was known as a tech hub where I could access some of the countries best minds in regards to software engineering.

Initially my company (e.g. freelancing with a name) focused on what I had done after college, custom Wordpress development for small businesses. Some of my clients included:

However being so close to BlackBerry HQ I ended up finding several opprotunities to make money developing apps. At first these apps were built using phonegap a technology which could compile HTML/Javascript as an app.

Later I would become the organizer of the cities BlackBerry Development Group and dive into native application development using c++ & QT.