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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 anyth
by 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 agoVery 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 agoSo basically, you've build the entire app yourself, right? What kind of lang/framework did you use?
- nkohari 11y agoZen was ASP.NET MVC, SQL Server, and a big mess of jQuery. TaskTorch is React, Node, and RethinkDB.
- AwesomeGorilla 11y agoZen looked nicely done. How would you compare these two platforms?
- nkohari 11y agoThe 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 agoHow do you feel about Meteor.js?
- myth_buster 11y agoYou 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.