Apr
So another day of intensive startup experience. Yesterday we chose our idea - to make time-bartering service. A person can chose to give some of his time for another with his expertise, and then later receive a service from another member with the time credits he accumulated (By the way I voted for another idea which I thought was better, but thats irrelevant now).
So today we split up into teams. Dev team chose their development language, and unfurtunately it was asp.net. There was only one other PHP dev there besides me, so I guess it was not meant to be. I decided to move to GUI stuff (javascript, css, html) where no one claimed any particular mastery, and rode the wave from there to join the user experience team (a group of people discussing UI concepts and working on interface mockups). The UE sessions were very interesting and I felt like I had a lot to five there. This in contrast to the dev group, where they had like 30+ people… the chaos was staggering.
Near the end of the day the development funneled to basic bottleneck in web, the graphic design. Somehow, we have only 2 designers compared to 30+ devs… how is that possible? someone told me that some of the devs got in with designers tickets… thats pretty incredible. Design was further delayed by all sorts of non graphic professionals trying to have to much input (they call themselves marketing 
), and logo was finalized only around 9pm … actual page design wasn’t even started before we separated to our homes, Which tomorrow will be an impossible race to the finish.
