Probably most of you (at least the german readers) probably enjoy a day out in the sun today. For me the good weather brought some nice inspiration. I did a big step in css stuff today and also integrated the logo draft into the templates for the first time today. It’s still messy and lot’s [...]
I skyped a bit about SimpleSnip today and had some brainstorming hours – first with others and some lonely ones after.
After thinking a lot about what features SimpleSnip could use when starting and what features could be added later, i thought a bit about positioning the new baby at the market. Copycats do have the [...]
I think a lot about navigation and layout issues today. One of the main question is the basic layout. I don’t yet know if i need 3 columns (left and right for sidebars, center for the content) or if 2 are enough. I tend to think 2 are better.
Let’s say 2 are enough – what [...]
I talked about SimpleSnip beeing a social community. In some jabber talks during the last days i noticed that this little word “social” leads to misconceptions about what SimpleSnip will be.
When talking about a social community there’s nothing like a totally profile based social network like Xing, LinkedIn or one like those. The primary focus [...]
Thought a lot about invitations during the last days. Primarly whether it’s good to start with a minimal team of testers and grant them invitations or just do some beta testing and then open all the doors.
It’s not easy to decide as each way has its benefits and i think i’ll have to meditate [...]
Yesterday was naming day. I’m not the one who breeds over a project name for 4 weeks. I had a longer skype call with Nils about some stuff around the project and we also brainstormed the project name. After some 30 minutes braining around we had 4 names left:
Snipadoo
Sniplia
AnySnip
SimpleSnip
After our phone call i weight up [...]
What’s going on? I’m going to build a social community. Something that’s not there until now and I thought it may be useful. And i’d like you to take part in my steps.
First of all sorry for my bad english. I was born in Germany over 30 years ago and have always lived here. [...]
