The founder of the company was my superior in my previous job during mandatory military service. After finishing I was scouted by him to mainly work in the research field. At that time the idea of NEAH was still very rough. During my first few months the apps and the backend were developed by the renowned app development company apptec. They created an early prototype under my supervision that launched in May 2017. Thereafter all the software products were delivered to our company and the development was continued by us. While the primary reason I came to the company – the research - faded into the background, my responsibilities shifted to being the IT-generalist in the company managing the infrastructure and the ICT. Moreover, I took over as the technical project lead and became the backend developer for the API service. At that time a clear vision of what the software had to be, to be successful, had already emerged. The core concept is real-time service facilitating on a regional level. As such, service providers and clients register, to create digital service marketplace in one platform for a faster, more efficient and streamlined process for providers to find potential leads and for the clients to find providers they can trust, are affordable and accessible regionally. The most important feature I worked on forming the service’s USP is the recommendation system matching providers and clients.

The time I joined the company, City Caching Salzburg was already half-way done. Most of the groundwork was already done. So I continued on with the Event System, the MVCVM, the mini-games, the locaiton-based service and the reward system.