I want to end this run of posts where I started. I am not building Edventory from the outside. I run real districts with it, every single day.
That is the difference I care about most. A lot of software for schools is built by people who have never sat in the chair. They have never spent a September chasing carts of Chromebooks, never had to explain a budget to a board, never gotten the phishing email that was a little too convincing, never been the only person on call for two districts at once. I have. Every feature in Edventory came from a real problem I hit in my own work, which means it had to actually solve that problem, because I was the one who had to live with it the next morning.
That keeps the product honest. I cannot ship something half useful, because I am the first person who has to use it. If a workflow is annoying, I feel the annoyance. If a report does not answer the question, I am the one still without an answer. The feedback loop is as short as it can possibly be, which is just me, using the thing, in the real job it was built for.
Where it goes from here is more of the same. More of the daily work folded into one place. More efficiency for the people who are spread too thin. More tools that respect how little time and money schools actually have. I built this because I needed it, and as long as I am still doing this job, I am going to keep making it better.
Thanks for reading. If you run technology for a district and any of this sounded like your week, Edventory was built for you, by someone having the same week.