Something a bit different… from mockup to launch in 5 days?
Whoa no posts for two months? We have been slacking! Unfortunately over the last couple of months James and I have had loads of work to do for uni and haven’t had much chance to work on Juvely. Thinks have been progressing, slowly. The chat section is starting to take shape which is good, we planned to get loads done over the holidays but I stupidly decided to say to my boss I wouldn’t mind working every day for two weeks. Hmm. Anyway, we are both free from other commitments now so we have been pushing on with Juvely. Or we were, until it became apparent that somebody left the PSDs in Scotland…. So we decided to get started with something different.
James and I have both had a few ideas for other apps we would like to see come into life on the big wide web. Unfortunately most of them have had flaws such as being too big or not having a good enough revenue stream. The next idea we were going to try once Juvely had been finished was a simple social bookmarking site, think Delicious mixed with Twitter. I expect something similar had been done before but we decided we were going to try it anyway.
James thought it would be a good idea to have this done before Juvely to get some exposure so he looked into having someone else coding it. The best price he got would have been £200 each! He did a bit of bartering and managed to bring this down to £100 each if I do the XHTML and he does some designing for this guy later. Still, I am a bit of a cheapscate so I decided to look into it some more and thought it seemed rather simple, so I decided to give it a go!
So far I have been working on it for about 12 hours and have got most of it done. The main challenges involved relearning Ruby on Rails as I haven’t used it for so long! Still we have got quite a lot left todo but we plan on launching by the end of the year (yes I know, that is four days time, but I think we can do it!).
Ill leave you with a screenshot of our todo list so you can see how much has got to be done. Unfortunately I have got to work tonight and all day tomorrow so I won’t get any more done until Sunday. Its gonna be tight…..
