Honey Hunting

Today I wrote my first of many, many lines of code.

Honestly there was a fair bit of anxiety about this. I spent two hours today writing documentation that would serve as a way to get my thoughts on paper, but the majority of the reason I was writing more documentation was that I was terrified of writing the first line of code.

I didn't know where to start, what to do or how to do it. I knew that the lines I wrote today, whether they be re-written a million times or stay the same, would server as the foundation of my first big project, my first start up, and for some reason that was debilitating and insurmountable.

Finally, I just created the first file and wrote the line to import a library and... then the next line... and the next...

"Hello World!" appeared in front of me to confirm I had set up the dev environment correctly...

One function turned into two, one file into four, one directory into three...

After a couple hours of near comatose focus I had written a decent logical framework for what was to come. The exhilaration that came from finally writing the first line and going far beyond made the anxiety worth it.

As I'm writing this update, I'm drinking coffee at 2235, preparing for a long night of writing even more code. Finally, this project is really underway.

So, I've been listening to The Lean Startup by Eric Ries on Audiobook and it's changed how I'm planning to do things. The huge insistence on build and release fast, gather data and change on customer preference and update quickly, constantly and cosistently has changed my short-medium term goals, and his focus on small but specific goals has changed my short-long term planning.

So, today I've created my first product-based survey to be released on Twitter tomorrow. I think it will be telling.to find out what potential users/customers will want the product to do, and I look forward to guiding development based on the answers.

Speaking of development... I created the github repository and began dumping documentation in there. I haven't written a single line of code but I've started sketching out how my MVP is going to look. Just having a GitHub has my psyched... I'm trying to fight the urge to start coding immediately, to wait on more data and to do it based on a good frameworked plan.

Here's to starting the development work soon!

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Well, I finally pulled the trigger. Well, I pulled it even more that is.

Over the last two weeks, I've set up an LLC for my business and opened and funded a business account. Today, I bought the domain for Honey Hunting.

Honey Hunting has been on my mind for around a year now. Honeypotting is an incredibly advantageous practice for network security researchers and network defenders alike. The process of envisioning, creating, customizing, deploying and monitoring honeypots can be incredibly time consuming and is often one of the reasons that network defenders and researchers turn away from honeypotting.

Honey Hunting seeks to break down the difficulty to automate the process of envisioning, creating, customizing, deploying and monitoring honeypots on a network. It will be a revolutionary way to go from idea to deployment in a matter of minutes instead of hours or days, while putting logs and network captures in an easily digestible, highly aesthetic dashboard to use for every day monitoring or presentation.

I think this mission is a vital one for network security, and I look forward to building this mission from the ground up while blogging (and vlogging) my journey.