So What Now?
It's been a while.
I think we can safely say that in its current incarnation Gameplan will not make us millionaires. Or frankly pay our salaries. However, this does not mean we are giving up.
Today's News seems to be a fantastic product and we have a hard core of several thousand readers using our app every day. Plus we have an iPhone version in the works, which should increase our users count several-fold. Arun even thinks it might be his preferred version.
But our (meagre) salaries have to be paid. So in an effort to do some interesting work and make some cash we met with several people over the last month or so to attempt to secure some paid work so we can fund ourselves as an entity for the forthcoming year.
After meeting with several potential clients we finally agreed to work with ViiKii on an extended consulting job that'll see us well into 2011.
What made us take the assignment? We're working on something that's an interesting project, with a decent shot at success, working with a talented team of staff and Pivots. Hardly a bad way to spend your life for a couple of months.
What should be noted at this stage is that we're not giving up on our 'startup', we're just going about it another way. We're both talented developers and don't need to spend other people's money on a workforce to build our ideas. We can help other people with their ideas, get involved, learn and at the same time fund ourselves for another run at Gameplan (or maybe something else) next year.
As is often said, investors are often backing a team rather than an idea, per se. We're doing the same. Investing in a team, but we're just funding it a different way; through our own skills. We back ourselves to do something amazing but by taking on interesting consulting work, for a little while, we don't need it to be right this minute.
Also the benefits of working with other people on interesting projects can only help us to avoid pitfalls and spark interesting new directions for us as a team. Plus it's nice to get out and about in a coding sense once in a while!
