The road to ATM 3:46 AM, Feb 1st
For the last year or so, I've been planning on launching a new project - something different to what I've worked on (e.g. this blog) with commercial viability. In other words, I've dreamt of working on a startup-style company (A dream I actually achieved in late 2007 when I joined the WhyGoSolo team) with the aim of launching something I think would be pretty damn cool.
Admittedly, My natural tendency to be lazy kind of stopped these plans - What free time I had I usually spent it focusing on all sorts of random crap such as browsing Digg, Posting on Pownce or even just reading forums. With 2008 now well under way (and with 1 month out of 12 completed with little to show for it), I've decided it's finally time to bring the idea into fruition and to actually blog about the process in an attempt to encourage myself not to be lazy and to actually work on it. So, I'm here today in part one of what I hope will be a regular series - The coding adventures of a wannabe Ninja.
The original idea for the project is not mine (that honor goes to a good friend and my business partner on it) and so I'm going to have to be a tad abstract at time - I mean, it isn't a new concept but there are some cool twists in our plans for ATM (some sort of code name for the project ;)). I think the best description I can give is one I mentioned to some friends a while ago when discussing it:
It's like Ebay meets Amazon meets Shopify meets a cake made of cool.
If your paying attention then you've probably noticed already that even the choice of wording makes it seem naive and quite possibly "almost impossible" - in fact, it's more about aiming high; even if I can't implement everything I'd like to, the motivation is there to implement the 90% (the first, easy 80% + the next harder 10%) of features which will make ATM what it is.
I hope you've found what I've written today intriguing and that you'll follow me as I go on the journey of building ATM.