[leslyn]

I got the idea for uencounter.me last March while talking with a good friend... "wouldn't it be neat if ...", I asked a few more friends and we all tried to find something that did what I was asking for but could not. I am a trained therapist and entrepreneur with a small private practice, not a programmer. I have two much younger brothers who are PhD students at major universities so my first call was to them ... "Do you know any starving brilliant hackers?" (Starving because I didn't have much money). Long story short - One of them had a best friend who loves writing code ... wanted a new project ... and I am awesome at selling my ideas! We brought on one other partner to manage business development/finances and began! That was 10 months ago. Miraculously, we have had a fabulous working arrangement. We divided the work - so much of the front end work was on the coding side but I have spent 40+ hours a week reading and learning as if I was in grad school again. Now - I handle marketing, PR, and manage tasks/organization of ideas every minute I am not working as a therapist! I still have not officially met my technical partner but we talk for several hours per week and burn the keyboard with emails. My most personal hardship was not having any knowledge about the technical side and being impatient while it was built but our communication started out good and has gotten better along the way. My ambition and drive are sometimes too highly energized for the other two partners but that is good as we seem to balance one another nicely. We have spent less than $4,000 at this point and have a fully functional product with several hundred users (and growing) two months post launch. We are terribly proud and visualizing a viable career with the application. Feel free to take a look: http://www.uencounter.me