I've got a killer idea and I'm looking for the right person to join me in my venture.

About me: I have a MS from Stanford University in Computer Science (emphasis: Artificial Intelligence). I have spent the last 6 years as an engineer at 2 Sequoia Capital backed startups. At Sugar Inc, I was the Software Architect and technical lead of an eleven person team building the Sugar blog network, which receives 100MM+ PVs/month. At Trulia, I joined as the 9th employee before the company had a public website, and helped build a national real estate search engine that changed the game in its field.

What's the idea? I'm not going to broadcast it in depth here, but the space I'm targeting is reviews and recommendations. I have an idea that I believe will be incredibly useful for helping people find interesting and fun things to do. I have the first version of the product sketched out and I'm building the demo now, so I'll be happy to tell you more details once we're talking in person!

What am I looking for in a partner? My preference is for a technical co-founder that can design the first version of the product with me. The problem I want to solve is going to require both clever algorithms and scalability, and I want to have someone on board as soon as possible that can work with me to build a great code foundation to achieve this. However, if you don't know how to code but have great product vision or design ability, I would love to work with you as a founder to help mold the direction of the product. The only real hard requirement is that you have extraordinary motivation and you're ready to spend long hours with me building something awesome.

Where are you? I live in San Francisco, and strongly prefer an office location near downtown SF. Right now, I'm working out of a co-working space downtown.

Sounds awesome! How do I contact you? Shoot me an email:

One of the sections of this site is a game of Tetris. What's that all about?

Well, the short story is that I was inspired by Google's series of CSS/JS based games that serve as the custom doodle from time to time, and decided to create my own.

The Tetris game contains no Flash whatsoever, because Flash is the devil. It instead consists of 500 lines of Javascript and a single image:

I treat each block as a 4x4 grid of squares that are either filled or vacant. If filled, it gets a background of the appropriate colored square. If not, it is transparent. I then implemented all the bounding box logic, and voila! Tetris.

Fun sidenote - if you look at the source code, most of it does not use jQuery. Originally, I did this as an exercise to see what I had to do to build a relatively complicated app without using a JS library. It even worked in IE6! But with the transition to this new site, I dropped the no-jQuery requirement because I was already loading it and it makes life a heck of a lot easier with the new score reporting stuff I added.

Welcome! I'm Lawrence Wisne, software enthusiast and aspiring entrepreneur.

i write code for fun, for work, and any other time I have an excuse to do so.

this site exists for 3 reasons:

• To play around with new features in CSS3 (this is a NO FLASH zone)

• To better know jQuery, which I have never used professionally (Prototype FTL)

• To teach myself Ruby On Rails, (the platform for my awesome site TBD)