Relocated to Chicago area
Posted on November 27, 2012
After spending the last two years living in western Wisconsin, I’m excited to share that my family and I have relocated to the Chicago area.
One of the major benefits of appendTo is the fact that we’re a virtual company. Before the company was formed, the decision was made that we wanted to build appendTo to be 100% virtual. The literal goal was to be able to put a bullet through our laptop and be back up and running in less then 2 hours. This was one of those crazy late night thoughts that we’ve stuck to for 3 years now and it’s worked out rather well.
appendTo now has employees or contractors spread across 12 states. Our community is tight knit and I feel that the lack of a central office has really demonstrated that this model can work.
I’m really looking forward to getting plugged into the local tech community and supporting the Chicago area JavaScript and Web Development communities.
If you’re local to the Chicago area, please drop a note in the comments to say Hi and suggest any local meetups to get plugged into, I’d love to hear from you!
jchristopher
November 27, 2012 (8:37 am)
@mikehostetler whoa that’s awesome! Excited for you!
Jack_Franklin
November 27, 2012 (8:39 am)
@mikehostetler that picture looks amazing. I’d love to visit Chicago.
agcolom
November 27, 2012 (8:40 am)
@mikehostetler Congratulations! Chicago is one of my favorite cities!
commadelimited
November 27, 2012 (8:41 am)
@mikehostetler What part of Chicago Mike? My wife’s family lives south of Chicago. Maybe we could meet sometime when we visit them!
k_borchers
November 27, 2012 (8:50 am)
@mikehostetler Congrats on the move! My family is in Naperville just outside of Chicago so welcome to the hood! 😀
fluidbyte
November 27, 2012 (8:52 am)
@mikehostetler Western Wisconsin lost it’s best developer. Guess I get to take that spot 🙂
digitalBush
November 27, 2012 (9:00 am)
@mikehostetler so awesome to decouple what you do from where you live.
ifandelse
November 27, 2012 (9:01 am)
@digitalBush @mikehostetler We like good separation of concerns 🙂
elijahmanor
November 27, 2012 (9:03 am)
RT @mikehostetler: Relocated to Chicago area http://t.co/T0Syhigi
reverentgeek
November 27, 2012 (9:09 am)
@mikehostetler That’s awesome! @bryan_hunter speaks fondly of Chicago 🙂
commadelimited
November 27, 2012 (9:11 am)
@reverentgeek @mikehostetler @bryan_hunter Chicago is awesome. My family almost moved up there 2 years ago.
jrguay
November 27, 2012 (9:36 am)
RT @mikehostetler: Relocated to Chicago area http://t.co/T0Syhigi
jrguay
November 27, 2012 (9:37 am)
@mikehostetler Welcome to #MyKindOfTown. Hope to talk to you sometime.
ScottEdWalker
November 27, 2012 (12:14 pm)
@mikehostetler cool – congrats and good luck Mike