Remobo: a Computer Network for your Social Network
I thought I’d get things started on this blog by writing a bit about my current main project. I’m a co-founder at AWIT Systems Inc. and we’ve created an application called Remobo. The project itself has been going on for a few years now, but we are finally gaining some traction with a growing user base and have an idea of how we are going to monetize this thing.
What does Remobo do?
To put it simply, Remobo simply creates a VPN between you and your friends, family, coworkers, etc. This allows you to do things like share files privately, pay games across the Internet, remote control your home computer form work… basically anything you could do if you and your buddy were physically on the same LAN.
However, we like to think that Remobo is much more than just a VPN. It provides a layer of connectivity beyond what your traditional social networks provide and anyone can just download it and be up and running in seconds since there’s virtually no configuration needed. So we have changed our naming slightly and call it an IPN (instant private network).
On the tech side of things…
We use a P2P based architecture and the whole thing is written in C++ using libraries such as boost and wxWidgets. Currently, its available for both PC and MAC OS X and we hope to have Linux available soon (it runs, but its not production ready yet).
So that’s the project I spend most of my time on… hopefully this is the year we make a breakthrough in the market and start earning some long awaited revenue. In the future, I’ll post some of the technical issues and design choices we have encountered along the way. We have a C++ guru on board at Remobo, so I’ll have to ask him to chime in sometime too 
I’ve mostly been coding the GUI and application side of things.
