It’s been what, 8 months since my last post? Well, there is one thing that I forgot to mention and it is this. Cherry Blossom Development is now officially a thing! Like legally, we are now an LLC and have been so for nearly a year.
Why did we do this? Well, a couple of reasons. First, and most primarily we got a contract for support of a website which I used to manage years ago (actually something I helped build) and while that did not in and of itself necessitate the creation of a business entity, I figured why not create a company and use this as a learning experience. Like, actually do accounting and taxes and such.
I figured, all of these little annoying things like actually running a business would eventually become a problem if we were to suddenly come up with a real product so why not get that part over with right now and so that’s what I did.
So, now I can say with confidence that we are a business, and we have at least for our first year pulled in some small amount of cash in both our software support services and also the previously mentioned crypto mining. Is it enough to quit our day jobs? absolutely not, not even close. In fact on paper we have a small net loss but this is to be expected.
What else is new?
We are all still pulling in different directions with what we want to build so this is a problem, but one thing is fairly clear to me at least and that is this:
- If we build something there’s a good chance it will be a software based something (maybe, but we have other interests also such as electronics/art etc…) that said, we are all software developers so software would likely be a component of whatever we build
- If we build a software thing, it will probably need certain functionalities common to most software things, such as a user authentication system.
- If we build a complex software thing, we’ll need help.
- If we want to get help, we want it to be easy to acquire and relatively inexpensive
So, for this reason, I have begun to build Prosaurus.com, however I am building it in as most modular a fashion as possible so that the components can be re-used. It will have a backend API written in Python/Django because Python is what all the kids are learning in college these days and kids will be the cheapest/most available source of additional software development skills. On the front end I have decided to go with React.js due to it’s popularity among the youngins.
That’s about it for where we are at. Not a lot of progress but more than nothing.