The Story & What’s with that name?
Let’s address the name first. It was originally The Useless Drone Company! and was started as a fun side project with the purpose of building software with little to no commercial application. The reason for this unusual approach came from a desire to just create fun and exciting R&D projects with no limitations or restrictions imposed. The “problem” with exciting projects is that they have a strong tendency to turn into not so fun or exciting business ideas within a very short timespan. So to solve this “problem” we decided that we would only ever do projects that would be completely devoid of commercial potential to ensure that the projects would continue to be pure R&D. To top things off we decided to expose the projects under the suitable brand name “The Useless Drone Company”. Thanks to the useless nature of our little “company” we have been able to bring you such fantastic ideas as:The Automated bug Injector!
-> Solving the conundrum when you have estimated something to take three weeks and you're done in a day .Predictive Speech
-> The same as Predictive Text when texting with the same level of “accuracy” The project was captioned “Why should lonely people not have the pleasure of being interrupted”.The GitHub “It’sMine” project
-> A project that exploits a deficiency in GitHubs metadata when importing existing projects allowing you to back-date and thereby alter the given projects timeline.Today
Fast forward 5-6 years and a whole bunch of weird and wonderful projects later we finally decided to embrace the commercial aspect of our work and create a new company called Useless Media with the mission of offering R&D based consultancy services within the field of streaming media. Applying the same kind of playful, experimental, exploratory and “everything is possible” approach as we had employed during our useless endeavors. Over the last X years we have had the pleasure of working with a lot of exciting customers like Telia, Qbrick/Arkena, Gamescore Keeper, Plejmo, HBO Nordic, Bein Sport, ATG Play, CMore, Tv4 Play and many more applying our particular brand of “getting shit to work”.Developers
Lars Rothaus
Founder and Developer
Daniel Hedenius
Founder and Developer
