December 2008
2 posts
Redesign finally done
I’ve finally finished with the new Six Sites. Check it out at sixsites.com
Update in process
I’m finally updating Six Sites! (as you can see by the lack of stylesheet on the Tumblr site)
It has been a long couple of months, but I’m finally pulling away from client work and focusing on products.
I am in the process of moving from Tumblr to Chyrp, which will add a host of new features, like commenting and member accounts. My plan is to use the site for both public posting on...
May 2008
2 posts
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Over the past two weeks I’ve been overwhelmed with web products. I’ve probably signed up for a dozen free accounts with a dozen web products solving about three problems.
I’ve been signing up with so many products for research, both billable and personal. And the sheer volume of “Web 2.0” products out there will make your head spin.
It seems as though we gotten to...
Week Four Report
Week Five is almost here and I figured I should probably do a quick update summarizing the activity of both Week Three and Week Four, which has basically been mostly filled with client work.
I’m pretty swamped with billable at the moment, so product progress has been slow, but it is actually intentional. My plan is to front load billable and then by August or September take a break to...
April 2008
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Week One Report
Well Week One of my Six Sites effort hasn’t been very riveting. In the last week I have:
had to tend to a lot of email regarding the Fling Media launch.
tend to bunch of new project requests.
deal with our car getting smashed
jump on a few calls, but not too many.
tend to a pretty full week of billable work.
spent far too much time dealing with CSS for Google Reader.
write down...
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A New Newsreader Update
While the votes so far overwhelming point to building a newsreader, several people have mentioned that Shaun Inman is currently working on a newsreader himself, already in beta.
I’ve reached out to Shaun to see if there are similarities in what he is working on and what I’m thinking. The more I’ve been pondering this idea, the more I think there is a need to completely reinvent...
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Is there a need for New Newsreader?
I’ve been thinking a lot about RSS Readers lately. I’ve always been partial to desktop newsreaders like Newsfire, but the allure of the multi-context flexibility of online readers like Google Reader has found me thinking about switching camps.
But one issue seems to be holding me back:
All the online newsreaders are so UGLY!
If I’m going to be spending the majority of my...
Every 5 Weeks →
After I launched Six Sites last week, David emailed me to let me know that his site every5weeks.com has beat me to the idea. They have a much more aggressive endeavor to create 10 functional sites in 50 weeks.
I think this is awesome. I love hearing people willing to both make products in the open in additional to using an agile development model to rapidly get products to market.
Two more ideas today...
Argh! I just had two more great ideas this morning. Both would only take a couple weeks each to do, but the revenue potential on either wouldn’t be as high initially as the original six ideas.
Since both of these ideas would make for perfect open source projects, I wish I could just spend a few days on designs and jot down notes on the features and publish them. Maybe try to attract a...
Announcing Six Sites: Six Products in One Year
I had this crazy idea, could I create 12 products in 12 months? I’ve been able to build a successful product in less than a month before, so I thought maybe I could do it again. After crunching the numbers I realized that I wouldn’t have any time to do client work too. Plus I feared that I would be so consumed with the insane pace that quality of each product might suffer.
So I scaled back...