Hi folks, I'm Paul, the principal architect and designer of Teleoscope. Along with a large group of very smart people at UBC (opens in a new tab), I built Teleoscope to address a research problem that I was having. I wanted to search through the hundreds of thousands of documents contained in Reddit's AmITheAsshole (opens in a new tab) advice forum in an intuitive, and improvisational way. It turned out to be a non-trivial design problem.

In the last year of my PhD, my supervisor, my team and I decided that it might be interesting to see if we could commercialze Teleoscope. At least, we thought, we wanted it to remain available on the internet for qualitative researchers to use. Along with a few undergraduate researchers, I applied to the E@UBC (opens in a new tab) program and completed the Venture Founder stream.

From there, we've been slowly building Teleoscope as a company. We're learning all the ins and outs of making bank accounts, hiring people, and all the other exciting things about running a startup. The idea of this blog is to help capture some of that as we develop the company. Stay tuned.