For exactly three years ago I was in the lovely city of Barcelona.
Jonas Arnklint and some of his friends rented an apartment there and I was there for a visit.
At this time me and Jonas didn’t know each other so well, we had met at a hackathon, 24 hour business camp, two years earlier and since then done some consulting work together.
Since we lived in different cities, we talked frequently by phone or Skype about our assignments and generally about business ideas and were both curious and eager to build a product.
The plan with Barcelona was to get inspired, try out and experiment with code and hopefully find an idea of a product worth to continue working with. I was there for a week and it was a pretty intense computer stay.
We sat in front of the computers during the days, enjoyed tapas and beers in the evenings and often returned to the screens white light at night.
Jonas is a full-stack developer with fondness to Node.js and Ruby and had done some experiments with Node.js (that was pretty new back then) and showed me early prototypes of mouse-tracking.
It instantly felt like something interesting, even if not completely new, there were services for mouse-tracking at the time, but the technology Jonas used was interesting. We started to discuss how to use this and the complexity of web form was just one of the many uses.
Now, three years later, we own two companies together and will soon launch version 1.0 of the seed that was created during that week in Barcelona.
It was, by the way, an truly amazing week in several ways that week in November 2010. I had just started dating the woman who I now live with AND also sold my apartment during a walk along the Barceloneta beach.
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