Build a processing queue with multi-threading and spread over multiple servers in less than a day hours using RabbitMQ and Celery.

As we move through the development cycle we now have many of the essential processing modules we need for…

Reflections on start-up life: Week 12

I’m not sure when the official “it’s been three months is” but this feels pretty close — 12 weeks in.

Last week was a big one. After three months of trialling and experimenting with different ideas, we packed up our plans and put them on…

Reflections on Start-Up life: Week 23

The time in San Francisco is winding quickly to a close. We now have only four days left to make the most of this particular opportunity. I thought in this post it would be good to summarise what we’ve learnt to date about investor meetings and introductions.

Reflections on start-up life: Week 30

Still waiting for the hockey stick — after signing the first customer the second, third and…

Reflections on startup life: Week 54

Last week was a cracker — lots done, both of our contracts have had substantial progress and are 80% — 90% done now.

The great news is we freed up some time to focus on our new, now not so super-secret project. For the curious, it’s called…

Reflections on start-up life: Week 16

There is something about actually visualising output that feels like progress for me. Never mind that we’d spent 4 weeks crunching the numbers and doing all the “heavy lifting” to get to the point we could start working on the icing, but that last 2 days of effort…

Launch of Distlr — The event specific Twitter client

Reflections on start-up life: Week 9

You develop a thick skin pretty quickly. The first two emails were upsetting, but by the 10th, you just apologise and move on. Moving forwards seems to mean stepping on toes, sometimes no matter how careful you are.