Adam Behringer is the founder and CEO of BeeDocs which “is an independent software company inspired by our customers, and taking pride in bringing useful and elegant products to life”. We received a chance to talk with this software genius. TheMacFeed’s interview with Adam Behringer follows after the break…
Hello, please introduce yourself to our readers…
I am Adam Behringer, the founder of BEEDOCS. I designed and developed Bee Docs Timeline 3D which is our flagship product.
How did you get into the software business?
I have been interested in writing software since I was in grade school. My passion in life is to make things. I like to make all kinds of things. I like to cook, I enjoy making movies, playing music etc… The great thing about software is that I can dream up a product, design it, develop it, and distribute it to an audience with minimal resources. That is what attracted me to software as a career.
How did BeeDocs begin?
I was doing consulting work for an investigative accountant. I was helping to prepare exhibits for trial. It was my job to make complex accounting information easy to understand for a jury. As I was doing that, I noticed that it was a huge challenge for small law firms and accounting firms to manage the boxes and boxes of document evidence involved in some cases. I started BEEDOCS (originally “Bee Documents”) to build a web-based service to manage scanned documents. That didn’t find an audience. However, along the way I discovered that the Mac lacked a timeline tool suitable for professional use, such as trial exhibits. So, after two years of work on the document management tool. I dropped everything and started working on timelines.
What is the largest challenge you have faced while getting BeeDocs to where it is today?
Well, in a way I wasted 2 years working on a product that not many people wanted. It wasn’t really wasted time because I really learned how to build complex software in that time, but it wasn’t successful from a business standpoint. The important lesson that I learned was to get customers involved from a very early stage in the product cycle.
What is a Macintosh application you can not live without?
Without a doubt, NetNewsWire. It was a huge time savings for me when I learned to keep tabs on blogs and news via a RSS reader instead of visiting web sites each day. Of course, I couldn’t live without Mail either.
Thanks for taking the time for talking with us!
Thanks for having me!
You can visit BeeDocs’s Blog here or you can follow Adam on twitter here.
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