About

The Idea
HardwareArmory is the first website ever to attempt the complex task of upgrading hardware. There are hundreds of computer hardware review websites out there (Extreme Overclocking). They all do a fantastic job of testing, benchmarking and scoring products. The problem is that there are thousands of options when it comes to finding an aftermarket upgrade. HardwareArmory is the solution to this problem.

You could join a hardware forum (Extreme Overclocking Forums), or ask for advice from one of a friend in the know. Those are both traditional and good ways of seeking out hardware advice. We just thought it would be a hell of a lot easier if you could just run a program and compare the opinions, reviews and suggestions from thousands of websites, magazines and people in the know (instantly) from one location--for free.

The People
HardwareArmory was created as my (Mark Hagan) pet project to help me continue tuning my C# skills with a real project. I decided to take this project to the next level and rounded up some of the best people I could find to help:

Mark Hagan : Founder, Developer, CEO.

Brian Hagan : Founder, Business

Bryan Cruise : Founder, Developer

John Troth : Legal Advice

The Future
We want HardwareArmory to be a common name in the computer aftermarket hardware market. Our goal is to produce information that is so good that people use our site as their primary means to find hardware upgrades. We want to grow the site to be so big that the day a new product is released, we already have it in our database--ready to be recommended.

Because we took our sweet ass time developing the website and used best practices in our coding, we are confident that we will remain number one (seeing as how we are currently the only one, this task shouldn't be that difficult). We want to go global by supporting multiple languages. We want to be able to find the best prices from the most reputable companies for our users so that they don't have to do too much shopping around.

Best case scenario: Non-Techie creates an account on Monday, runs the HardwareDetection program that evening, finds the best bang-for-the-buck upgrade for his specific hardware and has the upgrade shipped out by Tuesday. When the product arrives, he not only has the upgrade, but is linked to guides and videos showing him how to install it himself.