The Story I created the Gitlab Jenkins plugin back when I was using Jenkins for all of my projects. I really liked the Gitlab CI integration within Gitlab, but switching to Gitlab CI was not an option at the time because it had not properly matured. I was inspired to find a solution that allowed [...]
Wait Times For Disneyland
dbrooks2018-06-15T15:51:47-07:00The Story When the original Apple Watch came out I began thinking about what kinds of applications would benefit from being readily available on your wrist. Around this same time, I was going to Disneyland more frequently after getting an Annual Pass for the first time. I figured why not combine my love of Disney [...]
Spark
dbrooks2018-06-15T15:55:12-07:00The Story I had always wanted to create a social app like Snapchat, Twitter, or Facebook, so I was constantly thinking about what could be the next trend. Then, the idea occurred to me- what about the ability to spark a conversation with other people within your vicinity? This is especially useful when you do [...]
Klinche
dbrooks2018-06-21T15:19:16-07:00The Story Klinche is a construction payment management platform that aims to eliminate many inefficiencies that occur regularly throughout the supply chain. Through its unique payment process, it phases out the middle man between supply chain payments. Now, whoever is atop any construction project has the funding control and visibility of where payments are flowing. [...]
DABSeller
dbrooks2018-06-15T15:59:22-07:00The Idea While working various Venture Capitol circuits, DABSquared met Alberto Savoia. In exchange for helping pretotype one of his ideas, he provided feedback to us for Curveu. The idea that he wanted to try was buying goods from and selling to your Facebook friends. People are always posting on their Facebook account when they are [...]
Curveu
dbrooks2018-07-24T18:47:31-07:00The Story Curveu was born out of an app I created during my senior year of high school. Back then, there was no app to view your grades on your mobile device, so I created an app called San Jose PIV. The app screen scraped Infinite Campus's Student Web Portal and displayed it in a [...]
Orbital Network Engineering
dbrooks2018-06-18T09:39:26-07:00The Story Orbital Network Engineering was the first job I ever had. I began as a summer intern working on documentation and quality assurance for their custom made PCI receiver cards. After the first summer working there, I moved to working on automating the build processes for their custom flavor of linux. I created various [...]