New Business
I’ve talked about it a bit, but I wanted to talk about the new business I’m starting in depth. I’m starting a web and iOS development company with my brother, our focus is on clean, easy to use applications. I’ve always preferred an easy to use simplistic application over a beautifully designed one where the interface is confusing. My web site is a perfect example of this, I find 99% of content management systems to be overly complex. Instead of using one of them, I opted to run my site on Jekyll. Jekyll lets me do what I want without getting in the way, sure it doesn’t use a database or have a nifty web accessible new post/page form, but I don’t need those features. Not using a database reduces my server load and my having to do a weekly database backup. Not having a web form for new pages means I can’t post something really quick, I have to write it out and then decide if I should publish it. All of my recent posts have actually been written in Day One on an iPad.
For this business I’m taking on the role of Director of Software Development which allows me to focus on the actual project development, future developers/designers and everything server related. My brother Justin will be taking on the role of Director of Projects which lets him focus on client interaction, our social media interactions and keeping projects on time and budget. He will also be prioritizing/handling support emails and handling contracts/estimates.
With this business we’re trying to focus on doing at most a dozen client projects per year while also launching our own projects every few months. We’re currently working on the paperwork for the LLC so I’m not going to tell you the name yet as it might not be the final name we use but if everything works out with it we should be launched and accepting projects around the week of the 21st.