Finally, we’ve moved to the core of any idea: its philosophy.

Let’s learn about the term “philosophy”.

Cambridge has the following definition for this term (among others):
The philosophy of a subject is a group of theories and ideas related to the understanding of that subject. philosophy

Collins says:

A philosophy is a particular theory that someone has about how to live or how to deal with a particular situation. PHILOSOPHY definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

And Philosophy Foundation gives the following answer:

Philosophy is a way of thinking about certain subjects such as ethics, thought, existence, time, meaning, and value. That 'way of thinking' involves 4 Rs: responsiveness, reflection, reason, and re-evaluation. The aim is to deepen understanding. The hope is that by doing philosophy we learn to think better, to act more wisely, and thereby help to improve the quality of all our lives. Philosophy for secondary students. 

And PLATMA also has a philosophy at its core: make complex things simple and portable. We have ideas, people, strategies, and resources to deal with this challenge. We have a hope that by doing philosophy we’ve learned to develop better, to analyze more wisely, and thereby help to improve the quality of the development cycle.

At PLATMA, people invent for people.

This approach is even included in the brand name:

People Language AT Manufacturing Applications.

We found a simple descriptive name for our product and created a powerful logo. 

The meaning of the logo:

1. The right closed triangle is our business, commercial services, and proprietary IP.

2. The left open triangle is the open-source technologies we use and promote.   

3. The small middle triangle is our team which is the basis of everything in this project. 

And one more interesting thing to mention: “ATMA' means the spirit soul who is connected with matter in the material world. When the soul departs from the body, the body becomes devoid of consciousness – just like a vacant house without its owner! Atma is the doer!

We we surprised to discover this fact about our brand name after invention. This definition resonates with our concept. We are doers, and we strive to attract like-minded doers and actors.

As you can understand, our main concept is the KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) approach.

While popular usage has transcribed it for decades as "Keep it simple, stupid", Johnson transcribed it simply as "Keep it simple stupid" (no comma), and this reading is still used by many authors.

The principle is best exemplified by the story of Johnson handing a team of design engineers a handful of tools, with the challenge that the jet aircraft they were designing must be repairable by an average mechanic in the field under combat conditions with only these tools. Hence, the "stupid" refers to the relationship between the way things break and the sophistication available to repair them.

Yes, we make coding simple. But do you imagine the hardest work behind the scenes? Our team is our biggest value. People, who connect all workflows and create intuitive designs, who try to foresee every detail in the Builder and predict users’ behavior, who analyze similar products and find better solutions for the PLATMA platform. Our team is committed to you: our users and partners.

Our users and partners form our community. We walked a long way from a dream to reality, and now we want to share the resulting product with you.

PLATMA is designed to act as a second "expert analyst" that collaborates with the user, concurrently assisting in "solving" tasks.

Our platform is designed for:

• Small and medium-sized businesses to order the development of any service or connector on the platform based on the description of their problems, preferences, and technical requirements;

• Programmers and engineers who are proficient in software development;

• Citizen developers who can act as consultants for creating the final product and authors of individual services.

• Startups seeking funding to implement ideas.

• Companies in need of investments to restore their infrastructure, manufacturing, or other facilities.

All the mentioned categories are going to form our community.

But we also have one pearl in our pocket: we established PLATMA Academy to train students in different study courses to work with PLATMA tools from the very start. All our students get involved in our community immediately. They learn the chosen professional domain, and utilize all the capabilities of the PLATMA platform.

As you see, we considered every detail and created a completed ecosystem.

We train students, we cooperate on several levels (from no-coders to professional coders), we design the Builder/flows/AI tools, we develop connectors, we provide opportunities for small and medium businesses to use ready templates or to order tailored templates, we launch marketplace with monetization opportunities — we’re with you on every step supporting your ideas and caring about your well-being.

We built our Universe. Do you wish to hear from our Technical Creator?

Meet a short interview with Serhii Kozlov in our next article. He is a person in charge of every technical aspect at PLATMA.