The Week in Review

This week was instrumental, I accomplished the following:

This Site

• Set up this site with jekyll.
• Added multiple categories.
• Integrated in Google Analytics.
• “Learned” markdown.

DApp Business Portion

• Wrote Business Plan:
  • Product Requirements Document.
  • Lean Business Plan.
  • Product Features Document.
• Wrote Technical Packet:
  • Technical Requirements Document.
    • Refined heavily to reflect research into ERC20 vs ERC1155 compliance.
    • Decided on path to rely on 0x protocol.
  • Investor Presentation.

DApp Development

• Put out job offers on Upwork, Reddit r/ethdev.
  • Reviewed resumes, proposals and had phone calls.
  • This is ongoing, more phone calls over the coming days.
• Had conversations with some promising devs on LinkedIn.
• Set up search on Toptal.

Main Push for next week

I need to find a dev. This is Priority 1. I have some phone calls scheduled. I’m giving myself 2 weeks to find someone, I’m still learning how to actually hire.

Some possible paths are to use my Cornell and JHU alumni networks, LinkedIn, Ethereum hiring web boards.

Final Thoughts

This is the furthest that I’ve gotten in any of my ideas. I quote it all the time but it really was invaluable, shoutout to Ryan Shank and his blog post. I need to send him a thank you email or tweet at him.

I spent a year thinking about this idea, so the technical requirements and business plan kind of wrote themselves. I was worried initially that this felt “too easy”, but I’m trying to objectively look at what I wrote and I don’t see anything wrong with it. I wrote up an “Investor Presentation” as a visual aid to give all of my project overviews to. It is a high level, cursory, overview that is intended to be able to present to the business-types as well as developers. I don’t think that I will ever be in the scenario to ask for funding for this idea but who knows, and worst case scenario it provides me a ready presentation for showing friends and developers the vision.

I like this format of daily updates followed by an end of week summary. It keeps me honest and motivated. I think that as the work shifts from me to a developer, I’ll flow into a PM position and my job will be to manage without micromanaging and most of my time will probably be spent reviewing code to see where we are at, understanding/anticipating roadblocks and making sure that the financials are correct.

Anyway that’s it, that’s the week, onward we go.