A software house gets one kind of credibility from the customer projects nobody outside the customer ever sees. It gets a different kind from the rooms it shows up in. Here are the rooms ThreeB IT shows up in — with a link to a dedicated post on each one.
The .NET ecosystem
- .NET Foundation — Thimo's community speaker / organiser bio with the independent 501(c)(6) that owns the .NET open-source brand outside Microsoft.
- Ibbenbüren .NET Meetup — 148 members, third Thursday of every month, organised since 2017 (two years before ThreeB IT existed).
- .NET Conf community sponsorship — recurring sponsor across multiple editions of Microsoft's annual virtual .NET conference. Includes the on-stream interview from .NET Conf 2020.
- Sessionize speaker profile — the canonical CFP profile used by thousands of .NET-stack conferences worldwide. Topics: .NET, ASP.NET Core, MAUI, Aspire, Backend, Web API.
German digital economy
- Bitkom membership — joined via the Get-Started programme. Bitkom represents 2,300+ companies in Germany's digital economy and is the federal voice on the AI Act, sovereign cloud, and digital administration.
Regional founder ecosystem
- Gründen.nrw Folge 7 podcast — North Rhine-Westphalia's official entrepreneurship platform featured both founders for the Folge 7 episode of the Neue Gründerzeit series.
- WESt mbH Gründungsgeschichten profile — the Kreis Steinfurt economic-development agency profiled ThreeB IT in its founder-stories series.
Early international visibility
- TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin 2019 — own booth in the Startup Alley at the last European Disrupt, nine months after founding.
Why we do it
Each room does a different job. The Meetup is where the engineers we eventually hire show up first. The .NET Foundation is where we hear about platform changes before they hit the documentation site. Bitkom is where we hear about regulatory changes before they hit the rulebook. Sessionize is where conference organisers verify that the speaker they're considering exists. Gründen.nrw and WESt are how the regional startup infrastructure recognises that the regional startup is real. Disrupt Berlin was, at nine months in, the proof that geography wasn't going to hold the company back.
The customer-facing pillars — IT Services, Software Development, Web Services, Cloud Management — describe what we sell. These are the rooms in which we make sure we still deserve to.