Today Patrick and I demoed our web application to a potential customer. He agreed to participate in our free private beta, which is bigger than it sounds, because he will actually be running a large aspect of his business’s marketing on our product.
(I know I’m still being really, really vague, but I promise details will come…in November.)
Patrick and I went to an expo yesterday. We met a conference speaker who pointed us out several times during two different presentations (without us even asking). And we had a few business owners give us their contact information, asking us to get in touch with them.
Exciting.
(Real information to follow, when deemed appropriate.)
A few days ago I left my day job to take a serious stab at a startup with Patrick Joyce.
Day one: Patrick helped me get up-to-speed on Mac OS X; we defined our tasks for the week; we looked at the problem domain and designed the core of our web app; and we set up our Rails development instance.
Day two: we developed with Patrick in the driver’s seat and me in the passenger’s. I played back-seat-driver by helping to make design decisions, catching typos and logic bugs, and learning from the driver.
Day three: we developed with me in the driver’s seat and Patrick in the passenger’s. Patrick played back-seat-driver.
Affirmations
Ian Lotinsky 