move ...

I said move

The first week of our start-up just ended and let's recap...

1) We're making a customizable homepage
2) We're quitting our jobs (and in mark's case not looking for a job) to start this company.
3) We have given ourselves until August to make something good enough to release.

Our progress thus far,

We've.. well, set up this blog. No, but seriously, our code chest is moving along quite well. Since last Sunday (I'm writing this on Sunday night) we've worked 4 full days on the project and have probably spent the remaining three days thinking and planning the project. Everywhere we look on the web we keep wishing things had our interface. It IS that cool.

What about the title 'move' what does that have to do with anything? Well tonight is my first night at Alex's house. His family is great. We are probably going to go into a system where Sunday-Tuesday is spent at Alex's and Thursday-Saturday is spent at Mark's.



Alex has decided to keep going part time at his job until mid July, which means we probably won't have an amazing deliverable until mid-August.

We played some street hockey today for our break, we practiced tip-ins from the point.

missing our girlfriends

So we managed to eat half of Alex's birthday cake in less than two hours.

Not much news today in tech. advancement. Alex is still trying to get version 1.0 done (basic account functionality and sign up). We decided that the best approach would be to do the VERY lethargic and boring actions first.

I (mark) have been completely filling in the nuts and bolts of a releasable site. And we are both really excited. We have some new innovations that will let you talk to your loved ones without .. well, let's not spoil it here.

Peter Frost, our logo expert, has sent us the newest ClutterMe logos. We're quite excited about them.

Today is Alex's last day at my house before he goes back to work for three half days... what a maroon this kid is. In total I'd say I have 30 pages of edited and re-edited word document HLD (high level requirement documents) and Alex has about 30 new pages of code.

As I mentioned before, we have some new ideas and we're REALLY freakin' excited about them. So yes, the weekend was a moderate success. The next couple of days will encompass coding from home. What's on the menu for tonight? Great pun accomplished because it's dinner with Alex's parents.

I think the most important thing we got out of this weekend was DIRECTION. "It's invaluable"- says Alex. We almost have a defined site. The next major step will be to pick out a nice template for our User Accounts page and just keep hacking.

Code Chest Status: 0.1% full.

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