Posts Tagged ‘brainstorming’

Going back to development for a bit

Published by woody on August 30th, 2010

After taking a (mostly) break from developing new features in Jagimo in order to do the business plan and marketing, I’m going back to development this week. There are some key features that I think would really enhance the Jagimo network.

  1. User profiles. This will let people publish information about themselves and provide hooks into Twitter and Facebook.
  2. Notification list. One place to see all the activity on your jagimos, like commenting and retosses.
  3. Badge notifications. Wouldn’t it be great if you got a badge notification indicating that someone has commented on one of your jagimos?

I’ll need more than a week to do this stuff, but I gotta get started. Maybe there will be a big release at the end of September.


Jagimo! The Social Mashup

Published by woody on August 18th, 2010

JAGIMO is the Social Mashup—Part Game, Part SocNet. Create mashups of words and photos with random people from around the world.

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The birth of an iPhone app

Published by woody on March 5th, 2010

A couple weeks ago, Ernesto and I were sitting in Shade, a small Greenwich Village bar with great Crepes, drinking our third or fourth Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier, talking about how we should be developing iPhone apps.

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There are basically two ways we could go about doing it as indie developers. We could try to bang out a new simple app every few weeks and flood the app store with a bunch of (mostly clone) small apps. Each is low risk and most will generate no revenue, but if one is a hit it pays for the failures. Or we could try to think of one cool idea and spend some months developing it and hope it’s a home run. We decided to try to think of a home run. If we couldn’t, then we’d just start banging out apps and see what happens.

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