Things I wrote.

All of my long-form thoughts in chronological order.

Why I Built A Feasibility Analysis Tool

First I built the Xero Export Utility for a REIT so I had a keen interest in Real Estate and property. After bringing the product to market I looked around to plan the future roadmap. I identified that the key performance metric for evaluating the feasibility of a commercial property is IRR. So I built an IRR calculator on the back of my knowledge about from building the Xero product. The basic idea is that Revenue, Expense, Asset and Liability items can be forecasted for the life of the project such that the IRR can be calculated for forecast cashflows. And after that a budget can be set up to track against the actuals from the Xero sync. All of this can effectively be done in 'real time.'

Why I Built A Xero Export Utility

I was looking around for startup ideas. I wanted something Business to Business (B2B) with a high Total Addressable Market (TAM). I had read the Lean Startup and I caught onto the idea of trying to identify a complicated spreadsheet that could be appropriated into a dedicated SaaS app, bit by bit. Around me there was a REIT with a Master Trust composed of several smaller Trusts each with their own Xero file. I built the Xero eport utility to solve the problem of consolidating the multiple Xero Company files into one Spreadsheet. This was a task that the company Analysts were doing manually.