First 2 weeks
This is now the second Friday of my first 2 weeks of experimenting with starting a company. I wanted to write this last week but I got horribly sick on Thursday/Friday last week =(
Overall, I feel like I’m going slower than I should but am confident in either finishing or getting very close by the end of April.
What did we complete
- Formed an LLC in Illinois (took up majority of Tuesday Feb 16 to learn about different company types and requisites for forming one in Illinois)
- Registered an EIN for said LLC (to mitigate risk of easy identity fraud)
- Set up Google Apps and Trello for new company
- Set up new laptop user
- Performed OOUX exercise to get better mental map of all facets we need to cover (http://alistapart.com/article/object-oriented-ux)
- Started sketching screens and converting them to mocks in Moqups
- Determined our ideal font scale and baseline
Sidetracking
After starting back up with work on this Tuesday Feb 23, I had some UI/UX exploration in Moqups beta and discovered that there was no revision history (other tools have other flaws which leaves them out of the running).
I was previously frustrated at the application and decided to explore building my own mocking application.
Now that I have spent a few days on it, we are making progress but the application clearly won’t be done any time soon. It’s likely that I will go back to Moqups and workaround missing features.
Up next
- Lots more sketching and lots more mocking