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Aaron how much of technical background did you and Josh have when you first started building the website and also when did you guys realize that you had somethi

• akharris 16y ago
  Not much. My last real coding experience was C++ back in AP CS. I started teaching myself python at the same time we were doing full time customer development. I had a couple of friends pitch in some time to help us do some early stage stuff. We hit a tipping point in early August where we realized we were onto something - no one thing did it, more an aggregation on a lot of signals and a lot of legwork and conversations. We decided the time was ripe to do it for real, and put all of efforts into "finding Ryan." He handles all the real coding. I pitch in on some of the front end work (taught myself HTML and CSS) - but he's the guy who makes it all come together. Although, I do seem to get stuck with setting up printers and routers. As for NYC/California: we're out in CA now for YC. We'll do whatever is best for the company when the program ends.