Co-founder · Real-time operations software
VUID
Real-time operational software on containerised infrastructure — shut down in 2016 when the team chose to pursue better uses of their time.
Operational software must behave like infrastructure.
Co-founder with Jason Rudolph.
The story
- Problem
- Businesses needed real-time operational visibility — but ERP systems were fragile, slow to update, and unreliable under load.
- Constraint
- Platform had to behave like infrastructure: redundant, containerised, updatable without user disruption.
- Decision
- Build 24 integrated apps on redundant containerised architecture — operational software as reliable infrastructure.
- Outcome
- Minimum saleable product in 2015, Web Summit 2015 showcase; shut down in 2016 (not sold).
What mattered
- Founded February 2013.
- Minimum saleable product November 2015; Web Summit 2015 (Dublin).
- 24 integrated apps on redundant containerised architecture.
- Shut down in 2016 — not sold.
What we built
VUID gave businesses real-time visibility across operations — software meant to behave like infrastructure: scalable, redundant, updatable without users feeling the system disappear underneath them.
The platform comprised 24 integrated apps with containerised servers behind them (NodeJS, Tredly, FreeBSD, PostgreSQL).
How it ended
We shut VUID down in 2016. It was not sold. Jason and I concluded there were better opportunities for our time than continuing to operate the product.