Moving on

This past week, I resigned my full-time job at RecruitMilitary. It was a nice run there. I'm proud to say we managed to rewrite all the important internal software in Ruby on Rails from classic ASP, got the sizable sales team off of a home-grown CRM and into a hosted system. There's still a lot of work to be done, but I leave the company in the capable hands of my great teammates that will continue the journey.

So what's next?

Freelancing

I plan to spend approx. 30 hours a week doing contract app development, focusing on the technologies I'm most comfortable with HTML, CSS, Ruby, Rails, while pushing myself outside my comfort zone with Javascript/Coffeescript, Backbone.js, and Rubymotion-based iOS development.

I'm working hard to setup my initial clients. I know I'll be doing more work for the great people at Peoplebest.

Product development

I will also begin a product development experiment. I plan to spend exactly 10 hours each week working on a SaaS app, Engagement.io.

I'll be following the process outlined in Running Lean. Here is my first cut at a lean canvas: