Hardup by J. Scott Matthews

Author:J. Scott Matthews [Matthews, J. Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J. Scott Matthews
Published: 2014-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

chapter 12. comparison shopping for the right catapult

Jason, Raj, and Dirk sat in their room at HackLabs waiting for Tucker to arrive so that they could begin their meeting.

“Why didn’t Tucker come over with you guys?” Jason asked.

“He had something to do this morning, said he’d meet up with us here.”

“More like someone to do,” Dirk said.

“Sorry I’m late you guys,” Tucker said as he sauntered into the room.

“It’s OK, but every time you’re late we take some of your equity and divide it amongst ourselves!” Raj said with a smile.

They all laughed at this. They always laughed when someone made this joke, which was a lot.

“Any feedback on the prototype?” Dirk asked.

“It’s amazing!” Raj enthused. “Absolutely incredible!”

“Yeah, agreed, it’s pretty awesome. I think the only thing that would make it better would be if it made you a sandwich after!” Tucker said, laughing at his own joke. “Or better yet, you should make it so that it cries when you’ve been together for six months and you tell it ‘I don’t really considering us to be dating.’ Then it would be perfect!”

The others looked at him wordlessly, then at each other.

“It’s great,” Jason offered weakly.

“Oh shit, he didn’t even try it,” Tucker said.

“I did… I… No, I didn’t,” Jason admitted. “I tried, but I just… never got around to it.”

“You don’t trust me with your junk, is that it?” Dirk asked, putting a hand on Jason’s shoulder and looking him earnestly in the eye. Jason could never tell if he was being serious or if that was just Dirk’s dust-bowl-dry sense of humor at work.

“I’ll get to it,” was all Jason could say.

“He’s probably sore from being knee-deep in pussy all the time,” Tucker said, snorting at his own joke. He was never one to miss an opportunity to be an asshole.

“OK, well, Jason try to get around to that when you get a chance. And give Dirk your feedback. Alright then, next order of business is that now that we have a working prototype, we need to talk about accelerators. Specifically, which one do we want to join and how do we get into it?”

“Wait a minute,” Jason said. “I thought Dirk was supposed to be handling all of that. What did you call him again? A ‘hardware genius’?”

“I did and—”

“I am,” Dirk said, cutting in. “But I told you that I could get you to the MVP prototype stage, not the final finished version. That I need help with.”

“What’s the difference?” Jason asked.

“Well, you saw the last prototype. I can cobble just about anything together and make it work at a basic level. But when you start building advanced features and functionality into it, then things get a little tricky for me. So for example, with our current prototype everything is soldered onto a breadboard, but you can’t do that for the final version. You have to have a professionally designed and laid-out board that has been thoroughly tested before you can go into mass production. Doing everything by hand would be too time-consuming.

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