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.

here we go again,

It feels really good to be back at it again. The sun-is-a-shining and we're hacking away at our 19' inch LCD and 4 week old MacBook, Alex and Mark, respectively.

A personalized get well message goes out to our close friend and almost co-founder Derek Shaw who was involved in a terrible bicycle accident.

Derek, we both wish you a safe and speedy recovery.

In tech. news most of today is going to be spent documenting and coding. We need to precisely define our interface. A lot of our homepage interface hasn't been done before, so the code we are writing is going to be 100% original. We're not worried though, we code borrow in other parts of the site *cough cough*, we'll meet our quota. Getting it right the first time however is a major concern.

These guys get it, most of the time. What does 'getting it' mean? It means making a sexy and user friendly interface, making site navigation intuitive, and not putting off users with unneeded eye candy.

We're bringing sexy back to homepages.

Score of today's street hockey game: Mark 76, Alex 2. Only one fall each and numerous swears.

que pasol, que pasol

I just want to get back at it.

I hate standing around and blogging about our website. It's been 2 and a half days since Alex and I last worked full time on our start-up and it sucks. We cannot start a company if we let this much time pass between our productive work sessions.

I've been promised by Alex that this won't happen again, or at least it won't be like this till after mid-July but I can't help but question his commitment to the project.

In much funnier news, I feel like these guys...