On 9th January 2009, Nomitor Pty Ltd was born. The broad goal is to provide tools to help improve web performance. There's nothing on the site yet, other than a small personal joke for those who know us.
The timing of it is kinda eery. 8th Jan 2001, I started working in my first ever full-time job at Yahoo! Australia & NZ (amusingly, as the abbreviation would suggest, relatively little attention was paid to the New Zealand market :). 8 years and 1 day later, my next adventure would begin.
Progress so far has felt a little slow as we investigated various technology options, architecture, and considered the non-technical aspects of the business such as costs, competition, and pricing models. The thing that makes me relatively confident that we can succeed is that aside from technical experience we are also genuinely interested in the non-technical aspects of managing a business, and have the personal funding to be able to commit to doing this for the foreseeable future. At the same time we're rational enough to recognise the need to regularly review our progress and determine whether we have a viable business. Time will tell whether we're able to stay objective about this. :)
This week we got started on some code and it has been invigorating. For the past month I've been playing around 2 hours of Team Fortress 2 every night but having been stuck into some code I've skipped that the last 2 days. The pleasure arising from a determination to beat on a problem until its solved is something I haven't felt for at least a couple of years. Back in my Uni days I would work through til 5am the day an assignment was due, crash for a few hours, wake up and continue coding until the 5pm deadline. There's a certain satisfaction in having that singular focus. I kind of want to stay up late and just hammer out whatever I'm working on but know that it wouldn't be sustainable. I guess that's a sure sign that I'm getting old. :)
It probably doesn't hurt that we're using Ruby either, as its a completely new language to me. I really love to learn, and the past few years have been mostly learning on the non-technical front as I had been reading more management and business oriented literature.
