Topic
Fulcrum
- Fulcrum Field Day
A fun aspect of working on a business product with a product-led growth strategy that you get to use the your product for in your personal life. I've used Fulcrum for creating personal tracking databases, collecting vā¦
- Workflows in Fulcrum
Fulcrum's been the best tool out there for quite a few years for building your own apps and collecting data with mobile forms (we were doing low-code before it was cool). Our product focus for a long time was on makinā¦
- Fulcrum's Report Builder
After about 6-8 months of forging, shaping, research, design, and engineering, we've launched the Fulcrum Report Builder. One of the key use cases with Fulcrum has always been using the platform to design your own datā¦
- StEER Responds with Fulcrum in Nashville
As if the COVID-19 mayhem wasn't enough, the Nashville area is dealing with a series of tornadoes that ripped through the area, with a death toll of 26 so far. The StEER network, who have been long-time users deployinā¦
- 2020 Ready: Field Data Collection with Fulcrum
Today we hosted a webinar in conjunction with our friends at NetHope and Team Rubicon to give an overview of Fulcrum and what we're collectively doing in disaster relief exercises. Both organizations deployed to suppoā¦
- Announcing Spatial Networks $42.5m Series A Round
Today we announced this investment from Kayne and Kennet in Spatial Networks, to help us keep scaling Fulcrum in 2020 and beyond. This effort has been one of my main missions for the better part of 2019, so it's rewarā¦
- Community Impact 2019
Donayle put together this summary of what we've accomplished this year through our Fulcrum Community initiative. Some great stuff here: During Cyclones Idai and Kenneth, Team Rubiconās Medic team went to Mozambique wiā¦
- Balancing Power and Usability
This is another one from the archives, written for the Fulcrum blog back in 2016. Engineering is the art of building things within constraints. If you have no constraints, you aren't really doing engineering. Whetherā¦
- Fall All Hands 2019
We just wrapped up our Fall āall handsā week at the office. Another good week to see everyone from out of town, and an uncommonly productive one at that. We got a good amount of planning discussion done for future proā¦
- Field Data Collection with Fulcrum, Mapbox, and NetHope
I wrote this wrap-up summary of our hands-on workshop we did at the NetHope Summit in San Juan. It was a great joint session with Mikel from Mapbox and John from NetHope. Iād love to do more of these in the future. Haā¦
- San Juan
Weāre in San Juan this week for the NetHope Global Summit. Through our partnership with NetHope, a non-profit devoted to bringing technology to disaster relief and humanitarian projects, weāre hosting a hands-on worksā¦
- Introducing Fulcrum Views
Bryan wrote this up about the latest major release of Fulcrum, which added Views to the Editor tool. This is a cool feature that allows users doing QA and data analysis to save sets of columns and filters, akin to howā¦
- Data as a Living Asset
This is a post from the Fulcrum archives I wrote 3 years back. I like this idea and there's more to be written on the topic of how companies treat their archives of data. Especially in data-centric companies like thosā¦
- Tracking Fear: Measuring Safety Perceptions in Saskatoon
This is a cool post on a study done by a research team in the City of Saskatoon, looking at the perceptions of safety in a downtown area. They used Fulcrum to collect survey data using a safety audit developed to captā¦
- Learning from Disaster
Through Fulcrum Community, we've been working with the team from NetHope to support their needs in responding to disasters around the world. In their work, they help first-responders in humanitarian crises around theā¦
- Shipping the Right Product
This is one from the archives, originally written for the Fulcrum blog back in early 2017. I thought I'd resurface it here since I've been thinking more about continual evolution of our product process. I liked it bacā¦
- Team Rubicon Leverages Fulcrum in Cyclone Idai Response
This is the kind of stuff that gets you out of bed in the morning and really gets the motivators up to do things like Fulcrum Community to support disaster relief efforts. When Cyclones Idai and Kenneth steamrolled inā¦
- Fulcrum as a Personal Database
I use Fulcrum all the time for collecting data around hobbies of mine. Sometimes it's for fun or interests, sometimes for mapping side projects, or even just for testing the product as we develop new features. Here arā¦
- Weekend Reading: Rhythmic Breathing, Drowned Lands, and Fulcrum SSO
šš»āāļø Everything You Need to Know About Rhythmic Breathing I tried this out the other night on a run. The technique makes some intiutive sense that it'd reduce impact (or level it out side to side anyway). Surely toā¦
- Public Health Mapping for the Pacific Islands
Our friend and colleague Kurt Menke of Bird's Eye View GIS recently conducted a workshop in Hawaii working with folks from the Pacific Islands (Samoa, Marianas, Palau, and others) to teach Fulcrum data collection andā¦
- The Second Phase: allinspections
This post is part 3 in a series about my history in product development. Check out the intro in part 1 and all about our first product, Geodexy, in part 2. Back in 2010 we decide to halt our development of Geodexy andā¦
- Weekend Reading: Real Time Analytics, Georeferencing, and Fulcrum Code
š Whom the Gods Would Destroy, They First Give Real-time Analytics I thought this was a great post on how unnecessary "real-time" analytics can be when misused. As the author points out, it's almost never necessary tā¦
- Smartphone Technology Aids Evacuation Process in Santa Barbara County
We've been supporting the Santa Barbara County Sheriff through Fulcrum Community this year for evacuation reporting during emergency preparation and response. It feels great to have technology that can have real-worldā¦
- Weekend Reading: Hurricanes, Long Games, and AirPods
ā Hurricane Season 2017: A Coordinated Reconnaissance Effort The NSF StEER program has been using Fulcrum Community for a couple of years now, ever since Hurricane Harvey landed on the Texas coast, followed by Irma anā¦
- Fulcrum's New Look
We just finished up a several-month's-long effort updating the design and branding of Fulcrum, from the logo to typefaces, to web design and all. As happens with these things, it took longer than we wanted it to whenā¦
- Entering Product Development: Geodexy
I started with the first post in this series back in January, describing my own entrance into product development and management. When I joined the company we were in the very early stages of building a data collectioā¦
- The Opportunity Project
We've spent the last 6 months or so working with the team at the US Census Bureau on something called The Opportunity Project, a recurring initiative quarterbacked by the Census to bring together creators, government,ā¦
- Getting to 1,000
I saw this tweet a couple of days back that I thought was interesting: Whatās the most interesting or useful āhow I did Xā blog post youāve read in the past year? š¤ Examples:- How I made my first dollar- How we acquiā¦
- Designing with Figma
We've been doing prototyping over the last 6 months using Figma, a tool for building mockups and making them interactive for testing UX designs. This post from Caleb covers some basics in how it works with some greatā¦
- OpenAerialMap: Open Drone Imagery for Humanitarians
I wrote up a post for the Fulcrum blog on using OpenAerialMap with Fulcrum Community. As we invest more in building out our Community platform this year, I'm excited to do more with integrating OAM into our tools. Forā¦
- Weekend Reading: Fulcrum in Santa Barbara, Point Clouds, Building Footprints
šØš½āš Santa Barbara County Evac with Fulcrum Community Our friends over at the Santa Barbara County Sheriff have been using a deployment of Fulcrum Community over the last month to log and track evacuations for flooā¦
- Previewing SaaStr Annual 2019
I'm headed out to San Jose, CA next week for the SaaStr Annual conference. It'll be my third in a row; definitely one of the events I most look forward to nowadays. It always brings a great combo of interesting contenā¦
- A Primer on Foresight
The last several months I've been spending quite a bit of time working on this: our geospatial data and analytical product line called Foresight. We've been in this business dating back to 2000 in various forms and usā¦
- Fulcrum Desktop
A frequent desire for Fulcrum customers is to maintain locally a version of the data they collect with our platform, in their database system of choice. With our export tool, itās simple to pull out extracts in formatā¦
- Video Mapping in OpenStreetMap with Fulcrum
With tools like Mapillary and OpenStreetCam, itās pretty easy now to collect street-level images with a smartphone for OpenStreetMap editing. Point of interest data is now the biggest quality gap for OSM as compared tā¦
- Launching Annotations
This was a long time in the making. Weāve launched our latest big feature in Fulcrum: photo annotations. This feature was an interesting thing to take on. Rather than doing it the quick and dirty way, we did it rightā¦
- A Product Origin Story
Fulcrum, our SaaS product for field data collection, is coming up on its 7th birthday this year. Weāve come a long way: from a bootstrapped, barely-functional system at launch in 2011 to a platform with over 1,800 cusā¦
- Weekly Links: OSM on AWS, Fulcrum Editor, & Real-time Drone Maps
Querying OpenStreetMap with Amazon Athena šŗ Using Amazonās Athena service, you can now interactively query OpenStreetMap data right from an interactive console. No need to use the complicated OSM API, this is pure SQā¦
- fulcrum-node
Jason Sanford's node.js library for working with the Fulcrum API.