Startup Technicalities

Mendotasoft finally settled on a bug tracker.  We tried several trackers, such as Trac, Mantis, TFS, Basecamp, FogBugz, and several others, but we could never settle on one.  Each had quirks that rendered them unusable or unnecessarily tedious (in FogBugz’s case, price for more than the two-user startup deal was the only blocker, as I otherwise thoroughly enjoyed it).

In the end we chose Redmine. I haven’t gotten a chance to use all of its project management features, but the bug tracking is not awful, and thus more usable for daily work than the others. The only (fairly … Continue Reading

Welcome to Startup Technicalities.  My name is Max Lynch and I am the co-owner of Mendotasoft working on our first product, GoBuzz.

My duties as co-owner of Mendotasoft involve software development, system administration, and infrastructure implementation, along with general business administration and development. Programming is my favorite thing in the world to do, and it’s even more enjoyable when combined with entrepreneurship.

This blog will feature posts on technical issues as they arise at Mendotasoft, along with some non-technical bits thrown in. Enjoy.