To start the year on a high note, I wanna introduce everyone to our new project: The Qream Platform. As some of you might already know, I no longer work for a certain eBookstore company, so this particular project is something a handful of techie friends of mine came up with.

You can say it’s our own startup.

The platform is more of a scratching-an-itch type of project. We wanted to integrate physical documents with softcopy versions of them. I remember when I worked for a certain company years ago that I had to haggle for the photocopying machine just to give physical copies of the project plan I did for a client. Since then, I wished there was some way for people to read documents online and won’t have to bother asking for a hardcopy of them.

Dropbox came into the scene and it was good. In fact, it’s awesome. The only problem I have with Dropbox is that if I were a non-techie and don’t appreciate documents as mere files in my computer, but actual business intelligence assets, I won’t bother organizing documents the way you organize (or disorganize) files in your Desktop. I’d rather look into a log or a diary of the dates I got my documents and see their facsimile copy. It can be done using actual hardcopies of documents and organize them by category or by date. Of course, as we all know, physical documents tend to make finding them quite sad, as well as tedious. Basically, you can’t simply do Ctrl-F on all of those file cabinets.

Now that the iPad came in, opportunities opened up for documents-based applications, and we, the Qream Team, want to take the opportunity.

The Qream Team will also participate in the first ever Joyful Frog Digital Incubator Bootcamp to be held in Singapore later this month. We’d like to think that this is also a Filipino representation thing for the event (as if the pressure weren’t high enough, haha). After almost a month of planning and deliberating the architecture and resources needed, we will be starting our first codejam today, considering we’ve done a lot of code and research already for this. You can think of our first codejam as our first formal code-athon to integrate what we’ve learned in building a huge platform like Qream.

Hopefully this will also serve as our first diary entry for our long but superbly thrilling ride towards making the Qream Platform a reality. We’ll let you know later what it does specifically and hopefully we can tell you how it actually works without overpromising things (we want to keep user expectations aligned with our actual implementation progress).