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Mission
Wrangling Truth in the Tech Industry Wild West
At Viewyonder, we’re on a mission to lasso the untamed talents of indie content producers and tech wizards, corralling them into a posse that creates open, honest, and downright trustworthy content.
Why? Because the media landscape is messier than a digital dust storm
In a world where paid media often wears a mask, we’re pulling back the curtain. No more undisclosed funding, no more mysterious motivations for pushing THIS over THAT, and absolutely no more secret sources. We’re as transparent as a freshly Windex-ed window, folks.
How do we do it? One roundup at a time
Each Viewyonder project is like a new adventure – a standalone shindig with a potentially different crew each time. We’re providing the people, the process, and the tools to craft content that’s:
- Trusted (you can bet your boots on it)
- Transparent (clearer than a prairie sky)
- Tech-savvy (we speak fluent geek)
- Tailored for leaders and practitioners (from trail bosses to coding cowboys)
But wait, there’s more!
We’ve got a few tricks up our sleeve (soft goals, if you will):
- Have more fun than a barrel of monkeys with laptops
- Inject humor that’ll make even your stoic IT manager crack a smile
- Stir up some good ol’ controversy (respectfully, of course) to get those mental gears turning
At Viewyonder, we’re respectful, but we don’t tip our hat to just anyone. We’re here to challenge, inform, and occasionally make you snort-laugh at your screen.
Saddle up, partners. It’s time to ride into the sunset of reliable, entertaining tech content!
Let’s out-cowboy the cowboys, shall we?
History
From Solo Trailblazer to Tech Truth Posse
The Seed of Independence
Picture this: It’s the early 2000s. Steve Chambers is globetrotting faster than you can say “virtualization.” He’s neck-deep in cutting-edge projects, from wrangling data centers to lassoing cloud computing. But something’s bugging him…
The Lightbulb Moment
Flash forward to over 15 years ago. Steve has an epiphany brighter than a supernova: “What if we shared ‘independent’ views on the IT industry? No strings attached, no corporate puppeteers – just pure, unadulterated insights…” By the people for the people?
And just like that, Viewyonder was born.
From Lone Ranger to Wolf Pack
But Steve wasn’t content being a solo act. He had a vision bigger than a Vblock:
- Build a network of free-thinking tech aficionados.
- Harness the power of the crowd (because let’s face it, us nerds are stronger in numbers).
- Create content more trustworthy than a fingerprint scanner.
Why? Because (queue Hollywood trailer voice…) “in a world of pay-to-play media…” where funding and motives can be obtuse, Viewyonder chose light. Because this is what helps people. But they struggle to find truth. Let’s give them a hand.
Viewyonder Today: The Indie Content Collective
Fast forward to now. Viewyonder isn’t just intended to be a platform; it’s a collective. We’re want to be a vehicle for tech industry people that give a damn to collaborate on what we call “indie content.”
Sometimes it’s funded (gotta keep the lights on), sometimes it’s not (passion projects are our jam). But it’s always:
- Transparent (we’re an open book – often a very geeky, technical book).
- Independent (no corporate overlords pulling our strings).
- Created by peers, for peers (we speak your language, from Python to Klingon).
So, whether you’re a coding cowboy or a data wrangler, saddle up! The Viewyonder posse is always looking for new members to join our tech truth roundup.
Projects
The first Viewyonder project is a report entitled Is winter coming for SaaS?
The next scheduled project is a help guide for GenAI to cut through the hot-air/hype from vendors and snake oil salespeople, and give people a good chance of success with their GenAI projects: a happy path, if you will.
If you have an idea for a project, we maintain an “icebox” and you are welcome to suggest a paid or owned project via the Enquire page.
Enquire
If you’ve got an idea for a Viewyonder crowdsourced project, you can make an enquiry.
Tell us what your idea is and if you think it’s paid (funded) or owned (unfunded).
Team
The Viewyonder team currently consists of a small core of people with everyone else contributing to specific projects.
Steve Chambers started the initiative in 2024. Once the first few projects are done and a happy team structure is discovered, a team page will be created with a process for joiners, movers, and leavers.
Contribute
If you believe in working together with your peers in an open fashion to created trusted, transparent information that helps a community, then there’ll be something you can do to contribute.
The types of activities are:
- Share information such as related resources by sharing via X or LinkedIn.
- Comment on, share and engage with Viewyonder content.
- Take part in defining, and even running, projects.
- Contribute to research.
- Write content, develop MVPs.
- Be interviewed.
- Provide connections and access to people and resources.
- Read, feedback, review deliverables.
It’s not a full time job: you can do as little or as much as you can manage. Even get your name down as a “maybe in the future” and be included in updates amongst contributors.