Busy Times

Posted by Luca on March 20th

This week has been rather busy, we have got quite a lot done, but not quite enough to show yet! Here is what we have been up to and what we hope to do over the next couple of weeks…

The chat section is near enough finished, we just need a few GUI changes here and there, we have started creating an API and an Adobe AIR application! (If you want some cool links on creating an API or Adobe AIR app check out my keepsy feed!)

While I have been busy coding, James got carried away while tinkering with the Knowledgebase UI…

So, yep we shall have a new UI at some point for Juvely, we have also got redesigns lined up for the Juvely marketing site, creation of the Deer&Spiller site (our company name) and integration with the blog. I think James has ideas for a Keepsy redesign floating around too!

Resources on the server are getting a bit tight so I am considering moving to Slicehost (which I keep typing as Slidehost). There is nothing wrong with (mt) by Slicehost are cheaper and they allow you to build your server from scratch as you need it, which will allow us to save on memory.

Oh, and inauguration of the company!

Keepsy is alive! But not officially launched…

Posted by Luca on January 9th

Just a quick announcement to say that Keepsy is alive, and has been for the past week! We have been too busy implementing new features to announce its alive! Woops… Anyway, it isn’t officially launched yet but if you want a sneeky peek then head over to http://www.keepsy.com/!

So much for our 5 days from idea to launch, it did seem a bit extreme but I am glad we have got something up and available for everyone to try. We are trying to embrace the ‘Getting Real’ approach by releasing early and releasing often. Keepsy is so much smaller than Juvely that we decided rather than having two versions running on the server (production and development), whenever something is committed to the repository it is updated on the live version of Keepsy. This aids in bug fixes as if we need to fix any on the live version of Juvely we need to SSH into the server and run a few commands, where as for Keepsy we just need to commit! I expect we will change this as it grows, but that does mean for now you may experience a few bugs…

Enjoy, and let us know what you think!

The result of 20 hours work…. announcing Keepsy!

Posted by Luca on December 30th

Well we are now 20 hours down the line and thinks are looking good! Practically all of the features required for launch are now in place! Anyway, before I show you what has been done I shall explain what we are building.

Keepsy Logo

Rather than making a poor attempt at explaining Ill give you a copy of Jim’s spec he sent out when getting quotes:

The scenario. You and your friend spend alot of time on the internet in general (reading blogs, watching videos etc). You constantly come across new and interesting content you would like to save for later. You also find that friends with similar interests may find the sites interesting/fun. Keepsy will provide a way to store website links you find interesting/fun and want to save, it will also allow your friends to see what you save, allowing them to come across new and interesting content as well.

Upon arriving the Keepsy.com the user will be present with a short descriptive paragraph, a login form and a register button (which i will design and provide).

Once logged in the user will be able to edit their account settings and view all their latest “keepsies” (bookmarks). Every user once signed up is designated a profile page, which will look like the following ( http://upload3.net//uploads/251home.jpg). These can accessed by visiting username_of_user.keepsy.com (example jim123.keepsy.com ). Profiles can be made to be public or private. Public means anyone can access them by going to the user.keepsy.com url, private means only friends and the person themselves (once logged in) can view the profile.

The user profile will have a calender feature which will simply allow them to select a certain date, to which the page should display the keepsies (bookmarks). It will also list their friends in the form of little images (the friends profile picture, as seen on the design preview). A simple keyword search, which will search the tags + the title of each bookmark, then display the most relevant keepsies(bookmarks).

User will add the keepsies (bookmarks) by using a javascript bookmarklet (more info on bookmarklets here: https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/webdevel.html ). When on the target website, the bookmarklet will just need to be pressed once, then a small unobtrusive box will appear asking whether they would like to add tags to their submission or not. Once save is pressed, the user will continue browsing. The user will obviously need to be logged into keepsy on the computer they are using to add keepsies (bookmarks) to their profile.

We also have a couple of other features planned but we shall leave those a suprise for now. ;)

Anyway, as I said we have got most of the features needed for launch done. Unfortunately we still have got quite a lot to do and it hasn’t helped that my boss scheduled me in to work for 8 hours over the weekend - arggg. Don’t fret though, we still plan to release by tomorrow night!

Ill leave you with a screenshot of what we have got so far (the design has changed slighty since the screenshot linked above):

Keepsy 20 hours

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