I'm building a virtual coworking platform designed to help independent remote workers stay focused and accountable while building community and having fun during the work day. https://focusparty.com
It's currently myself (design & product) and another technical founder who have just gotten started. We're looking for a more senior-level CTO to join us to accelerate development and plan for the future.
We've been working on this for only a few weeks together and already have a few awesome communities signed up to pilot the closed-beta, which means instant-users the moment we launch.
If interested, please email steffan at focusparty dot com. :)
If you need a plan b I might be able to help. I've been a programmer professional for the last 16 years. (front end and backend web apps) If your interested I can provide more details of my background/experience and my startups.
He is a web-dev for a local technology company, and has been for the last 3 years. I've been on the business side of 2 startups, but have never been CEO and directly in charge of managing development and overall milestones.
As far as features and functionality go, we aren't adding new features each week. His main goal was to create a search function that pulled results from an API that we're using, and that's it. We haven't been able to plan any other features or weekly/monthly requirements because we can't seem to get past point A.
His excuses have been that he's truly researching the best possible way to do this, but I can't seem to shake the feeling that he is spending too much time on research instead of producing very minimal results.
He may be overthinking it. My suggestion would be how could he hack together a solution in 3 days total. Then use that and iterate. He's probably worried about scaling, and being featured on TechCrunch, etc. Which are common. But if he's the type to always make slow and methodical decisions, he might not be the best fit in a startup.
well, he is fairly skilled (or so I was lead to believe), and his main goal has been to just have a working search function that is pulling data from an API, and that's it. A few other developers have said that should take no more than a few hours, so I'm left sitting here saying wtf?
he has a few completed solo projects, and was a friend of a friend, so I was able to spend time with him learning about his skill-set, which I then ran past the CTO of a local company.
It all seemed to check out. I really like him as a person, and I know that he has the ability to build this, but I'm stuck on the management aspect of it. because I'm not technical and I respect the process so much, it's hard for me to know when I need to push harder or let off the gas. Not to mention the fact that he's a co-founder, so that relationship has to look a little bit different than "I'm your manager, get shit done"
If you haven't set any deadlines or goals, do it now.
If he doesn't meet those goals, cut him loose. Obviously make those goals attainable, but to quote -> "Its time to fish or cut bait"
I'm building a virtual coworking platform designed to help independent remote workers stay focused and accountable while building community and having fun during the work day. https://focusparty.com
It's currently myself (design & product) and another technical founder who have just gotten started. We're looking for a more senior-level CTO to join us to accelerate development and plan for the future.
We've been working on this for only a few weeks together and already have a few awesome communities signed up to pilot the closed-beta, which means instant-users the moment we launch.
If interested, please email steffan at focusparty dot com. :)