We're gathering in the Facebook group here: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_141079939271952
What are you going to be launching in November?
Bizen provides better intelligence for franchises. A web-based application that is integrated with the store point of sale to provide comparative analytics, trend analysis, key performance indicators, goal setting, and notifications.
I received seed funding from Jumpstart Foundry in September and am hoping to have my first paying customer in November.
These are a set of tools I have been using for my own franchise stores and am now converting into a product that I can take to market.
I haven't written much about it yet and haven't posted it to the Facebook group. I have been so damn busy creating the product and getting my investor pitch ready for a "demo day" on November 3rd.
If you don't want to join the group, just post here.
Also for those of you wanting to keep it private, consider this: Studies show that publicly committing to a goal significantly increases one's chances of accomplishing it successfully.
Which I understand entirely. I'd really rather not be linked to everyone under the sun on Facebook. There's already enough people I'm connected to who are unwittingly sharing my deets with hundreds of unscrupulous app developers.
Thats not quite true according to this ted talk.. (but I'm sure studies have found the other way round as well)
http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_keep_your_goals_to_you...
So many great MVP's get posted on HN but disappear within a day or two - I wanted to offer an additional place for people to post their projects for review and discussion by the startup community. Please let me know what you think - and if you've got an MVP, send me what you have and I'll put it up.
What info should I send you? I don't see an easy "add a project" link...
Edit: The long description: You know how a business receives 100 phone calls per day but noone can tell listen to every call for feedback? We not only track each call, but we mine each call and score them so you get a snapshot of what customers are saying.
Lotaar is a TV/Radio guide that rminds you when your favourite programs are about to go live.
It's a somewhat ambitious Mac OS X application, and with no-one to keep me in check, the design has become -- sprawling, to say the least...
To improve the odds of ever launching it, I've decided on a single use case that determines my "MVP". As soon as the app can be used to build that demo, I'm going to launch it as a free alpha.
Last week, I actually shipped a minimalist iPad application (it's a port of a Mac app that I wrote way back in 2002):
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/turtledoveland/id399324585?mt...
Luckily it was approved on the App Store on the last days of October, so I can't use its release as an excuse to cop out of "Launch An App November" ;)
I happen to be working on a project to scratch my own itch. It's an iPhone application. I've been teaching myself flamenco guitar, which requires a specialized metronome (for counting the various rhythms).
I'm using titanium appcelerator to build the application, and it's about 50% done now (just UI work now, the functionality is there).
It's essentially a clone of beatvibe http://tivstudio.com/node/1
I am confident I will have this app submitted to the app store by end of november.
Here's the current code if anyone is interested, still very much a work in progress http://github.com/himmel/Flamenco-Metronome
I only started working on this in my off time about a week ago.
Fanfare is a social media marketing platform that lets online content creators (bands, writers, video producers, etc.) promote their content and engage with their audience.
The secret sauce is that we provide an easy way for online publishers to distribute their content to users only after they take a social action. Publishers can log into our site and gain insight in who’s accessing their content, sort their fans by Klout score, export their info, and reengage.
Version 1 is live, let me know if you'd like to see a demo. We're currently working on Version 1.5. Thanks.
Do take a look and give me some feedback.
Maybe have a free option to get some traction.
I'm committing to launching DuctDo.com, a companion webapp to DuctMail. DuctDo: Do stuff! (Where as DuctMail was "Remember Stuff").
DuctDo will be about forming habits, and about setting goals for yourself. For example, let's say you procrastinate a lot, and you want to have some form of public reminder system in place, you tell DuctDo what you want to do. DuctDo then sends you an email every morning telling you to do it, and then at the end of the day, it asks you for an update. Will link into things like Twitter and Facebook and update people with your progress... or lack of progress.
DuctDo will be the second part of the Ductivity suite of web apps.
Aside from that ... keep working on new features, had a cool idea today to build some reports and let portals tap into some of the collective data I have so they can identify sites they should be getting their games on and whatever trends emerge for the various categories of games... with luck (or more data) it might even identify what kind of games they should be building/licensing.
Not sure why November is such a great month of challenges like this (aren't we all growing mustaches too?) Good luck to everyone!
We have a MVP up which is just a wufoo form, but I want to commit to getting the real application finished!
That is all.
I find that often I am too ambitious in making my goals and if I can have a bunch of other people look at them and give me feedback it would be very beneficial to me, and hopefully others too.
Eyeclash is a video-chat based social network where users can play games, watch videos, and run applications alongside video chat. It is 100% browser-based. The product is still really raw and buggy right now but we're pushing it no matter what.
More news to follow.
A little removed from the tech-centric mainstream, but it provides a web based tool for managing fund raising auctions.
The site is live and functional now, with a full feature release expected by the end of the month.
If you missed giving us feedback, please do so at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1843748
Thanks
I'm using the Lua bindings provided by iPhone Wax to do the level design, and it's going quite well.
the idea is to put a message out to people you lost touch with who you can't find any other way.
Make stories just like Choose Your Own Adventures!
HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1857156
Videolla is basically video publishing and monetization platform. Best in this galaxy.
Early version is already live, this month is about filling out features and content and starting to sell it.
I got video chat working.
Ill have phone / txting done this week.
Next week im implementing a credits system.
secureattach.com
I've got the MVP mostly done its time to ship. I've locked down one test user site, so I'm looking for more. Let me know if your interested.
Quick Brown Frog: a 100% in-browser, non-Flash, non-Java typing tutor.
Plan on launching it into a private beta this month.
Track anyone's Twitter social graph over time.
Some kind of technology trend tool and job aggregator.