Started a company

I’ve been fascinated with the concept of starting a company from scratch for a long, long time. Garrett and I had been going back and forth with the idea for years, but nothing ever solidified as something we could both enjoy. In the mean time we’d done everything from Flash training to video documentation of an aircraft carrier to web app design.

Just as we were taking about it seriously again, Apple announced the iPhone SDK. We’ve both always had a passion for good software and it didn’t take a genius to figure out that the iPhone platform was going to be huge. So one day while we were going over some app ideas the CEO of the company we work for told us we should start a company making iPhone apps.

And so, Mobelux was born.

The only problem? Neither of us knew how to write software. We could design it, sure, but we needed someone to make it. We looked around for awhile but we soon realized that there wasn’t a lot of potential in Hampton Roads for that kind of programming, and we felt that we needed hands on control, which ruled out remote/outsourcing development. That left one option: one of us would have to write it. So, armed with a copy of Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X and Xcode, I started off. But what are we going to make? When we originally embarked the app ideas were very grandiose. But we figured we’d have a tried and true software engineer to work hand in hand with. That plan had changed. We needed a starter app (for lack of a better term).

Well, there was this new blogging platform I was using, and it does have an API…