Author Archives: Larry

            What the **** is open on July 4th??  Regardless of the plan, it’s always good to know.  For the BBQ hosts, it could be some last minute supplies from the grocery store.  For the guests, ...

If you've been paying attention, you know where everyone in the Hartford area will be this Saturday - painting Hartford green & celebrating St. Patrick's day in style at the 42nd Annual Greater Hartford St. Patrick's Day Parade.  The parade ...

Sometimes your favorite new tools (ahem, HoursOf.com for finding Open businesses) are available on mobile websites before coming out as native apps.  It's annoying to re-type the full website name every time you want to go there, so why not take ...

On February 5th, we launched a Beta version of HoursOf.com - a local search engine that filters for OPEN businesses near you.  It is certainly a Minimum Viable Product (MVP), meaning it doesn't have every  feature you could hope for ...

Three months in, and significantly more focused than in my previous post.  Instead of attacking 2 businesses and a third sidea (side idea), I am fully focused on building HoursOf.com, an application to find open places at any time.  I've ...

Is there something about the word Portmanteau?  I'm already confident that there's something fun & catchy about combining words, but I wonder if the fun factor of the term 'Portmanteau' (port-man-toh), cleverly re-coined by Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland, ...