00:00 - Intro 00:35 - Where does Todd Geist find his inspiration? 04:28 - Database Transactions 07:09 - Consulting vs. Products at Geist Interactive 08:09 - Barcode Creator 08:35 - FM Perception 09:30 - One Spark Academy 11:00 - Custom Software vs. SaaS - "I think that every business, if they could pull it off, if they could find a way, that they would have custom software." 12:21 - "People want their own processes and their own workflows." 15:39 - "Our number one mission today is to help people and businesses have their own software." 17:35 - The Challenges of Selling Custom Software 19:45 - The Constraints of Multitenancy 20:00 - Privacy & Control 23:33 - FM Perception 28:16 - JavaScript & Node.js 30:55 - "We have FileMaker to do 90% of what we need to do and we have JavaScript to do everything else. There isn't anything we can't do with those two tools." 31:50 - Go Draw: Markup Photographs in FileMaker using JavaScript in Web Viewer. 37:30 - Geist Interactive @ DevCon 2018
Dan and Nick welcome Todd Geist of Geist Interactive to discuss his myriad inspirations, the enduring demand for custom business software, Geist Interactive's product lineup and the power of JavaScript for use in FileMaker's web viewer and on FileMaker server.