Codeode is a one man company. That one man is me. Jon Kågström (peronal blog here, mostly in Swedish). The story goes back to 2003 when I was doing my master thesis [pdf] at university. I tried to figure out how to catch spam e-mail so in parallel I started to build what came to be Cactus Spam Filter.

Since then I have been doing this on my spare time for fun. Unfortunately I can’t live on it, however I hope to be able to do that eventually. Living on something that I give away for free?

My philosophy of freeware

My idea is to keep the stuff I do free
In that way people will only donate if they really really like it
So I need to do really really good stuff
It’s not only a good bait for me, it’s also what I believe is the future of economics.
Also, I rather have 10 unsatisfied users who hasn’t payed then 1 unsatisfied who did pay.

Well anyways, now I live in Stockholm, Sweden. I moved here in the beginning of 2006 and started to work on EA Digital Illusions as an AI-programmer on Battlefield Bad Company. In April 2008 BFBC was finished and the bots could take care of them self. So I decided to quit at DICE and use whatever money I got left from working there to write really really good software for Codeode.

Future

Right now I am working on a really exciting projects that involves lots of cool AI! To be announced during this summer