About Good Guys

Good Guy Software team is in business since 2004. It started as a freelance programmers students team. Because students were from computer security faculty and were some romantic, original team name was Good Pirates. Good Pirates developed some open source projects, as well as competed for clients on getafreelancer.com website.

It became obvious later that the "pirates" word in team name wasn't attractive for older people who ordered software for the team. "Pirates" name caused assosiation with computer criminals who cracked proprietary software or hacked websites. That is why in 2006 team members started discussion about name change. That time was no advertiser or copywriter in the team, so no one had time and wish to find good name for the team. The new invented name became VASoftOnline. "V" and "A" were team leader initials. "Soft" had to show we the team is about software development. Because "VASoft" team existed already, "Online" had to make the team name unique.

Team existed from 2006 to 2012 with this name . It developed 100+ Desktop applications and websites. Before iPhone and Android Windows was monopoly in software development market. And Microsoft promoted .NET Framework hard. That is why team concentrated on .NET Framework development. For websites, primary platform was LAMP as the most popular and affordable for small business. 

Team reforms started in 2012. Obvious victory of mobile platforms forced team to double think about its orientation on Windows as permanent monopoly. Also .NET Framework disadvantages became more and more annoying. Microsoft didn't make .NET really cross platform. Different Windows versions contained different incompatible .NET versions. Installer was buggy and Microsoft never could or wished to create really reliable .NET installer. Also .NET installer is very big, and customers became mad from the fact that they had to install 100 megabytes system update to install 10 megabytes application. So, team switched to native C++ development with portability in mind. C++ is unique, because actually any modern platform, including mobile ones, contains C++ compiler. It makes C++ ideal for business logic programming, With C++ we can reuse the same code libraries on Windows, Mac OS, iOS, Android, Linux and any other platform that has enough system resources and C++ compiler implementation.

Also, programmers only are simply not enough nowadays to create really powerful Internet business team. That is why we invited new members in our team, including marketologysts and copywriters. Because team grew, we had to formalize our relationships. That is why in 2012, additionally to platform change, we registered offshore company in Seychelles and changed our brand. Since 2012 VASoftOnline became Good Guy Software.

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