RescueTime is a privately held and self-funded company in the Seattle area with 3 owner-operators (and the occasional contractor). Operating expenses are laughably small, revenues are laughably smaller. We were funded by YCombinator in Dec. 2007. For more information, please feel free to drop us a line.
Tony Wright, CEO (personal site at Tony Wright dot com)
Tony has built and sold two web companies and and has consulted with a gaggle of startups and Fortune 500 companies. His last entrepreneurial effort (Jobby - now retired) was sold to Jobster in 2006. For RescueTime, Tony works on the design/UI (with lots of feedback!), writes all of the (shamefully bad) copy, wrangles the CSS, works with Flash, dabbles in Rails code, and writes an occasional check.
Joe Hruska, CTO (personal site at Joe Hruska dot com)
Joe has a long history with multi-platform enviroments, having been responsible for networks that included mission critical Unix based applications, Windows desktops, and Linux database servers. His clients have included Fortune 100 companies like British Petroleum, the SAFE project for the State of Utah, Division of Child & Family Services, and non-profits like AREA - Alaska Robotics Education Association. Prior to co-founding ResccueTime, Joe was the President and CTO of Integrity Solutions, Inc. a custom ISV and software integration company. ISI was successfully acquired by investors in November 2006. For RescueTime, Joe builds the data collectors for both the Mac and the PC, works on the REST web service, and does magical things with MySQL.
Brian Fioca, CIO (personal site at Brian dot Fioca dot com)
Brian has over ten years of experience in architecture, design, and development of web based consumer products and enterprise services in Java, PHP, and Ruby on Rails. Before joining RescueTime, Brian was the Lead Software Developer for the Platform team at Jobster, and contributed a large amount to the consumer-facing profiles and networking features of the site. Prior to Jobster, he served as the Chief Scientist at PangoMedia, a web design and development firm in Anchorage, Alaska, where he built Jobby, Inc. with co-founder Tony Wright - a tag based resume builder and search engine which was acquired by Jobster in 2006. Before moving to the west coast, he worked as a software developer at IBM, UPS, and Employease, in Atlanta, GA. Brian is a published author on LAMP programming technologies, and invented the WASP framework for PHP 5. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Southern Polytechnic State University.
