Following Australian Startups and Tech Trends

Today we showcase the story of an entrepreneur, Aulay Macaulay, from GoldCoast, Australia, founder of JustRosters - a web application for Staff Rostering. In a candid interview with us, he gave insights into how he is managing and juggling. This is what he has to say in his interview with us: • How long it took to launch It took 3 of us 6weeks from brainstorming to launch @ about 25 hours per week each. That is around 450 man-hours all up. • Stage of Venture Launched on the 3rd March 2009. • Which Market Segment Industries that employ a high number of part-time staff (Hospitality and Retail) Industries that employ shift workers. (Health, Emergency Services, and Manufacturing) Industries that have staff working at multiple locations (Building and Construction) Industries that sub-contract on an irregular basis (Government and Contractors) • Customers Business owners/managers. Whoever is in charge of rostering for the businesses identified above? • Targeted Age Group All ages. • Users U...

Today we explore an exciting venture in web-based content management software - Millstream . It was founded in 2006 by Adrian Lynch from Perth, Australia. In a recent email-based interview with Adrian, he gave insights into his venture and how he is progressing with it. This is what he has to say: • Please tell us about yourself, your background and interests? I studied Graphic Design, graduating in 1990, and have run my own businesses since then. I have always been extremely interested in the technical side of 'design' especially developing automated systems to remove the incredible amount of wasted effort that goes into publishing. I still do a bit of design work, but I now spend most time coding or on system design. • What is the name of your venture/company? Millstream Web Software, our product is Spring CMS. • Please tell us about your venture/company? Since 2006 we have focused on turning Millstream from a 'web design company' into a product-based 'SaaS provid...

The 28th participant is 88 Miles Founded by Myles Eftos, 88 Miles - is a simple time-tracking application, aimed at the SME market. Let us explore more about on various facets of 88 Miles from Myles. This is what he has to say: • How it started? 88 Miles was founded and developed by Myles Eftos. I developed this for my freelance and consulting business because I realised that I couldn't accurately account for his time when working for clients. • How long it took before it was up and running? A beta was out within 2 months - the final version was launched after about 6 months. • What stage of your start-up is, stealth mode, beta mode or fully functional? 88 Miles is fully functional • What is the main objective/mission behind your venture? To provide a sustainable, un-obtrusive time tracking system that will be useful to other small companies. • What services it provide for consumers or customers? Punch-in and Punch facilities, timesheets, reporting, full REST AP I and integr...

The 9th participant is Plutext . Plutext enables collaborative editing around docx documents, where docx is the default file format in Word 2007. In simple terms, it's a word processor like Openoffice Writer and Google Docs. Based out of Melbourne, it was created by Jason Harrop in 2007 and this is the second venture he has started, previously he was involved with SpeedLegal (now Exari). Let us explore a bit further about Plutext from Jason, on various facets of his startup: Q. How long it took before it was up and running? A. A couple of months to build a proof of concept, whilst also doing other things, before giving it 100% focus in September 2007. Q. What stage of your start-up is, stealth mode, beta mode or fully functional? A. Beta mode. Q. What is the main objective/mission behind your venture? A. Enable people to work on a Word document at the same time. Provide an environment for doing this irrespective of whether you have Word 2007. Q. What is unique about your ventu...

The 8th participant is Invoiceplace . Invoiceplace - Easy Invoicing and Quotes from Anywhere. It provides a service for businesses to save time preparing invoices and quotes keep track of overdue invoices and record payments received. It provides free, fully functional accounts for up to three customers, and twenty customer subscriptions start at $15 AUD a month. Scott Carpenter created this in 2006 with the help of some very talented contractors whom he worked with. Let us explore a bit further how Scott and Invoiceplace are going: Q. How long it took before it was up and running? A. Invoiceplace was launched in November 2006 and was in development and testing for a year before the launch. Q. What stage of your start-up is, stealth mode, beta mode or fully functional? A. Invoiceplace has launched. Q. What is the main objective/mission behind your venture? A. To provide a simple and easy-to-use service that enables businesses to take control and save time with quoting and billing. ...