Resurrecting the first professional software I wrote (Vent) after 28 years

The first professional program that I wrote was way back in 1998 along with Gaurang where we both created an accounting, inventory and point of sales system for the Air Force Wives Welfare Association (AFWWA) in Hindon. It was the first paid project that we both worked on while still in school. We developed the system called Vent over a few months before our class 12th exams started and deployed it at Hindon, then we both got busy studying for the board exams and then with college. There was a lot of demand for deploying it at other AFWWA locations but because we were both not in India (I was in US and Gaurang was in UK) we didn’t really work on it. AFWWA continue to use the software for 5 more years till an OS upgrade caused the software to stop working and they had to replace the entire system. Vent was created because we were bored and instead of studying went to watch the demo of a Point of Sales (PoS) system for AFWWA to see what profession software looked like. After seeing the…