![]() ![]() Kent was on board, and we started making it. Eventually I just said OK, let’s just make a really powerful chat log viewer with no other feature. He told me it would take a lot of time and effort, but I would always just keep bringing it up and he would keep saying no or it’s not really worth the trouble. And I always kept pestering Kent to make Chax again. And the search in Messages was always busted where it would beachball or I could never find what I was looking for. But I always craved a message log viewer, because I was always looking for a chat. With Kent and I becoming busy with Flexibits, Chax just kinda died. And Chax stopped working because of other changes that occurred with OS X. Chax was something that I always used for iChat and then of course Messages eventually came into being. “Chatology came out of the original relationship that Kent and I had with Chax. ![]() Some things are made just as a labour of love. ![]() Michael explains how and why they still work on the app, despite it not being successful for them. And he and I decided to start Flexibits.”Ĭhatology is like the spiritual successor to Chax for modern Macs. Eventually after I left Cultured Code, I told him that I wanted to start my own thing with my ideas. We hired Kent as a developer and he did some work with us. We became good friends and as I started working for different companies, including Ambrosia and Cultured Code, I asked Kent if he wanted to work with me while at those companies. I also did a lot of testing for him, helping him improve the app. He added a log viewer eventually and I helped design it. We started talking and he would implement the ideas. I had a bunch of ideas and I said you should do this and you should do that and he liked my ideas. I thought it was such a great app and it added so many features to iChat, which I used at the time. I met Kent in 2006 and I met him because of Chax. “Chax had actually come out a while ago, back in 2005. It is very important in Flexibits’s history and highlights their working relationship and why they decided to come together as Flexibits. Speaking of things in the past, Chax for iChat on Mac was a huge deal when it launched and was one of the first few projects that Michael and Kent worked on together. Fate works in surprising and delightful ways sometimes.” Well, obviously the odds are 365 to 1, but, yeah, we were incorporated on the same date Apple was incorporated. When it arrived, the official date seemed very familiar to me and I remember Kent being like, “what are the odds?!”. I remember when we were waiting for our incorporation paperwork. So, 34 years prior to Flexibits, Apple was incorporated. It was just fate,) is that Apple was incorporated on January 3rd, 1977. A very serendipitous story (and we truly had no say in this. “Kent and I had been discussing starting a company for a while and we finally launched Flexibits in 2010, but we weren’t officially incorporated until January 3rd, 2011. He also talks about how they got incorporated on a very interesting date. ![]() Michael tells us how he had been friends with Kent and started working together much before Flexibits was a thing. Let’s go back a few years to when Flexibits was founded.
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