Like most folks coming into this new year and new decade, we’ve been reflecting on the past. Sunshower.io is far less than a decade old (we turn two in March!), but even a year is a long time in the life of a small business. Despite our small size, it was a banner year.
First Six Months
The first six months of the year were largely occupied by releasing the Sunshower platform to the public. Our web application plays host to Stratosphere, allowing you to visualize your AWS EC2 infrastructure around the globe, and Anvil, allowing you to save 66% on your AWS EC2 bill with right-sizing.
We also spent a lot of the first half of the year doing the “startup circuit” — taking second in a startup pitch competition, doing lots of networking events with investors, and interviewing at Y Combinator.
Last Six Months
From there, we abruptly got pulled into the land of government contracting. A large defense contractor contacted us about doing a white paper together for the Air Force, which we submitted in July. We spent August waiting to hear if we we would receive an RFP, and September writing the proposal. Our contacts at the Air Force think our offering is incredibly valuable, and last we heard, the proposal was in the technology evaluation phase. Interested in what we pitched them? Download our marketing white paper.
This fall, we’ve renewed our commitment to open-source software. Most notably, we refactored our plugin framework into Zephyr, so other organizations can reap the benefit of a non-OSGi system for lifecycle and dependency management. We also renewed our work on Aire, a UI framework built on Aurelia and UIKit.
Last but not least, we finished out the year with a bit of a rebrand. We have a new logo and doubled down on our bright colors. We also changed our tagline to reflect our movement away from optimization and towards application and infrastructure management and deployment.
We’re looking forward to what 2020 has in store!