Pete-
Thank you so much for the kind words!
SharpTools is a standalone entity cofounded by myself and @James. We’ve been amazed by the community - awesome questions, great support for each other, open dialogue - all the things we could have hoped for.
SharpTools originally began as a set of Tasker plugins and widgets that I designed for my own use several years back (circa 2014 I believe). A friend suggested that I post it publicly as he thought it would be helpful for other people to use, so I did and tens of thousands of people have downloaded it. Over time, the app continued to evolve and improve based on customer feedback.
We felt like there was still this fundamental issue with Home Automation where you had to bounce around several different apps to view, control, and automate your home - so about a year ago, we decided to extend some of the work we had done on the Android app into a full fledged solution for viewing, controlling, and automating your smart home from a ‘single pane of glass’ and that has manifested itself as SharpTools.io.
Oh, and the profile picture is a fun wild-west themed picture I took at a company event years back when I worked in the corporate world. The funny thing is I’ve worked with @James over the past decade or so and he is in the uncropped version of the photo! I’ll have to see if I can find the original photo sometime. 