Jet City Software was formed (officially) in 2004 as the custom programming arm of iWeb, Inc.

iWeb, from 1994 - 2007 was a commercial software company that pioneered some "Internet Changing" technologies ...

• 1994 - The Javascript BBS The 3rd (that we know of) discussion forum application, and the first to break the "indented/threaded" model that was the standard at the time (anyone remember wwwboard?). The Javascript BBS was a browser independant, fully dynamic bulletin board system that used a dynamically sized viewpane to preload all forum messages so that instead of many page views to view a discussion, it was all right there for you. Back in those days, there was no ajax to pull off this visual feat, and making it even more tough, the browser wars were just heating up, so Netscape 2 and MSIE were on completely different planets in terms of compatibility. The Javascript BBS had a great run, but ultimately died out as the need for a system that could handle thousands of posts became more important than a cool way to view them. iForum was released, fully SQL Based with a choice of viewers in 2001. Although other forum software (phpBB and VBulletin to name a few) have taken off like rockets in terms of featurs and popularity, iForum is still one of the fastest rendering forum programs out there.
  
  
• 1995 - iLink Remember back before Yahoo! bought up everything under the sun in an attempt to become all things to all people? It used to look and feel an awful lot like DMOZ ... sweetly simple. But still huge. We launched an application in 1996 called "iLink" that brought the idea of a categorized directory of websites down a few notches and opened it up for regular folks. Soon, hundreds of webmasters were opening up their own industry specific, location specific, hobby specific categorized search portals. What a concept! A couple of years later, we put an SQL Backend on it, and relaunched this program as "Hyperseek", an application that still has over 500 active websites running it. If you look at the search portal landscape today, there's probably 10,000 of them out there, and at least 100 software companies selling software to do exactly (and more) of what Hyperseek did nearly 10 years ago. An entire industry completely blossomed from a simple idea, a lot of hard work, and a ton of competition.
  
  
• 1997 - Jackhammer Maybe you've heard of goto.com? Overture? Google Adwords? These are mega million dollar companies based on a simple concept: search. More specifically, altering the order of search results based on advertisers willing to pay more to be up higher in the results and at the top of the page. That's great today, but in 1997, the only way for a search engine to make money was to show image banners on search pages, and back then, they weren't always relevant to what you searched on. Anyway, we started trying to figure out ways to help our Hyperseek customers make more money with their search engines. Why not let folks pay a fee to be higher up in the results? That was the beginning notion behind our Jackhammer module for Hyperseek. At first, it started simple enough: the first 5 people to pay would be the first 5 in the search results, based on how much they paid each month. A few months later a company called goto.com launched and turned the search world upside down by introducing the concept of "Pay Per Click" and "Bidding for Position". We were on track with the original idea, but saw the light when goto first launched. We caught a lot of heat for "Ruining search" back then, but stuck it out, and Jackhammer became teh standard by which all other independant PPC applications were measured.
  
  

Jet City Software has been there with iWeb all along, doing customizations to iWeb applications, as well as a few full-blown custom programming projects along the way. Custom Applications and the continuing persuit of perfection of "The Jet" has become our passion. Working hand in hand with real people to deliver the perfect application to suit their needs is more rewarding than brining any retail application to market.

• 2008 Jet City Software makes "The Jet" Application Framework available freely under the GPL. The libraries that powered all of the iWeb applications are now available, in a much more clean and efficient form, to all PHP developers ... hopefully to spawn a new breed of application, as well as to save programmers precious hours of coding time by providing a stable, efficient set of libraries to make the mundane easy, and to simplify some of the complicated database and design tasks that programmers often wrestle with.
  
  

Our mission today couldn't be more clear:

1. Give back to the development community by making over a decade of work available for public use.
2. Provide custom programming services to businesses and individuals with "something extra" -- the intangible that only experience can provide. Do it on time, keep it under budget, and make it stable and fast. Period.