Fieldkeep
Spoken work orders for trades crews: dictate the job on site, and a complete job sheet with hours, machines and materials is waiting for the planner.
In active development.
The company behind the software
Small software, made properly
Kom je van Fieldkeep? M2H B.V. bestaat sinds 2009 (KvK 66055210) en ik, Mike Hergaarden, schrijf en beheer de software zelf. De rest van deze pagina is in het Engels; mailen mag in het Nederlands.
If you got here from Fieldkeep or MyBabyStages: I’m Mike, and I make them. Twenty years of shipping things people use. Games are the loud half; web products have run alongside them the whole time. Here’s what that means for the software.
The practical details
- Company
- M2H, a Dutch company running since January 2009
- Chamber of Commerce
- 66055210
- Run by
- Mike Hergaarden, building things for the web since 2004
- Released
- Twenty-odd games, a co-created shooter series that sold 2 million+ copies, and one game live on twelve platforms at once
- Funding
- Self-funded, so the roadmap answers to the people using it
Being self-funded mostly shows up in what gets built. There’s no growth target to chase, so a feature makes it in because someone asked for it, not because a spreadsheet needed it to.
Where the experience comes from
The games are the part people know: worlds where a lot of people are in the same place at the same time and everything has to respond instantly. Our last one runs on twelve platforms with every player in one world, and getting that to work well is a harder engineering problem than most business software will ever pose.
Web products have been there the whole time though. Before the first game there were sites I built as a teenager, then Wooglie, a games portal that served hundreds of millions of plays. Fieldkeep isn’t a change of career, it’s the other half of what I’ve always done.
That’s the background I bring to Fieldkeep. I did not fill in a template. I have spent two decades on the awkward parts: how data is stored, how fast it comes back, what breaks at three in the morning.
It also means I build small on purpose. A tool that does one job well beats a platform that does nine things badly, and I’d rather ship something you can figure out in five minutes.
The short version
- Twenty years of building for the web, games and otherwise
- Millions of people have played games I built, alone or with the M2H team
- Backends, servers and databases are my own work, not outsourced
- You’re talking to the person who writes the code
The products
MyBabyStages
A small tool for tracking a baby’s milestones, built because I wanted it myself.
Finished and running. Also at BabyFases.nl, the Dutch version.