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Hi Nate, thanks for sharing your story. I think it's interesting because my co-founder is also my wife. And it's an interesting dynamic to say the least. If you

Hi Nate, thanks for sharing your story. I think it's interesting because my co-founder is also my wife. And it's an interesting dynamic to say the least. If you don't mind me asking, what are the roles that you play individually? Just curious ;) For myself, I'm the backend engineer and devops, while my wife does the design and front-end engineering.

nkohari 11y ago
Roughly speaking, with Zen (and now again with our new startup TaskTorch), I was in charge of the technical side of the business, and she was in charge of anything non-technical (finance, marketing, support, etc.) Niki is an industrial-organizational psychologist, so her viewpoint is completely different from mine as a software engineer. As a developer it can be hard for me to see past the software sometimes, and Niki's perspective helps quite a bit.
- sg_gabriel 11y ago
  Very cool! I can totally see where you are coming from. I also tend to get stuck in the minutiae of software sometimes, and it may be empirical data at best, but I feel that women are sometimes so much better at seeing things from the user's point of view, and have a better sense of empathy for the user. I'm glad to see that you managed to have such a close and complimentary working relationship with ur SO. All the best for your new startup, and am looking forward to Chapter 2 of your blog post!
- atmosx 11y ago
  So basically, you've build the entire app yourself, right? What kind of lang/framework did you use?
  - nkohari 11y ago
    Zen was ASP.NET MVC, SQL Server, and a big mess of jQuery. TaskTorch is React, Node, and RethinkDB.
    - AwesomeGorilla 11y ago
      Zen looked nicely done. How would you compare these two platforms?
      - nkohari 11y ago
        The new platform is light years ahead of the old one. Part of that is six years difference in technology, part of it is that I have another six years of experience, but mostly it's a difference in mindset. RethinkDB and React in particular are fantastic.
        adyus 11y ago
        How do you feel about Meteor.js?
- myth_buster 11y ago
  You also seem to have a knack for writing. Reading the beginning, I got the The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. feel.

nkohari 11y ago

Roughly speaking, with Zen (and now again with our new startup TaskTorch), I was in charge of the technical side of the business, and she was in charge of anything non-technical (finance, marketing, support, etc.) Niki is an industrial-organizational psychologist, so her viewpoint is completely different from mine as a software engineer. As a developer it can be hard for me to see past the software sometimes, and Niki's perspective helps quite a bit.

sg_gabriel 11y ago
Very cool! I can totally see where you are coming from. I also tend to get stuck in the minutiae of software sometimes, and it may be empirical data at best, but I feel that women are sometimes so much better at seeing things from the user's point of view, and have a better sense of empathy for the user. I'm glad to see that you managed to have such a close and complimentary working relationship with ur SO. All the best for your new startup, and am looking forward to Chapter 2 of your blog post!
atmosx 11y ago
So basically, you've build the entire app yourself, right? What kind of lang/framework did you use?
- nkohari 11y ago
  Zen was ASP.NET MVC, SQL Server, and a big mess of jQuery. TaskTorch is React, Node, and RethinkDB.
  - AwesomeGorilla 11y ago
    Zen looked nicely done. How would you compare these two platforms?
    - nkohari 11y ago
      The new platform is light years ahead of the old one. Part of that is six years difference in technology, part of it is that I have another six years of experience, but mostly it's a difference in mindset. RethinkDB and React in particular are fantastic.
      - adyus 11y ago
        How do you feel about Meteor.js?
myth_buster 11y ago
You also seem to have a knack for writing. Reading the beginning, I got the The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. feel.