Cory was asking about a deploy that had a bad file. Somehow one of the servers was showing that it was on the master branch but had a corrupted file or something happened. Light back and forth between her and Wayne. Cory was asking about emails and trying to get some answers. Our email servers are struggling right now. We then switched and were talking about the sales tax aggregates project. It is fully live but just needs that little bit of a push. We've got a couple of things really close, but they just haven't fully landed.

We started talking about Wayne's new framework stuff. He was showing us some of his dynamic add/edit pages using a database or a data dictionary stored in a database. He then created a smart page that uses dynamics, cascading code and populating it all from database records or dynamic objects. Pretty cool stuff. Light years ahead of what we've got right now.

Some time was spent looking at and making suggestions to the data dictionary idea and concept. The more that we can make this whole thing data driven vs hardcoded, the better. Think of all of the things that show up on a web page, what if we could turn that whole thing into data driven pages and be able to pull the data and dynamically render the pages. That would be awesome! We already do tons of that, but Wayne was showing us options on a whole new level.

Steve was asking some questions and Wayne was answering them. Good conversation between them. Steve was talking about percentages of ownership, deferred payments for hours worked, and other forms of investment. We all see the potential. Steve was saying, "I'm sold, how are we going to do this?" Tons of potential, we just need to figure out how to do it, fund it, and sell it. That takes a lot to make everything happen and work.

Next, we rolled into talking about stability of the code and servers. Steve put the words - "what about the ice down dates" - through chat. We talked about how all of that is possible, we just need to make a plan and get it included. Nothing is just going to happen. We have tons of awesome ideas, it just needs to go the next level. That lead into talking about the plan and making it airtight. We also talked about getting that good plan and then being able to pitch it to investors to get some or all of the funding. That seems to be what needs to happen. We need our plan to be almost at the blueprint level with details, requirements, flow charts, and all of the specifics. Basically, a full-on business plan and full technical plan as well. We need it all. That's the goal.

Original notes are from 5/30/23. This little note was added on 6/3/23 (only a few days later) - As a small side note, this was actually a turning point for Steve in deciding what needed to be done. Nobody knew it yet, but I think that he was seeing that we are having a hard time finishing up things that need to be done (close but not quite finished) and yet we are totally lost in what could be. We know we need it, no one denies that, but how do you stop, control, and/or manage that. Maybe you don't. You may have to let it flow.