jasonsaeho

Thanks for the offer. I... probably will want some help. But I want to build the product the way I want it first.

Once I finish making the product look and function exactly the way I want it, I don't think I'll care at that point whatever people want to do to it. But until then, I think I want to restrict people from straying away from my vision of the product.

Also, now that I'm not working on this startup anymore, I'm just kind of creating whatever I want without any regard for what people may think of the product or use it for.

For example, there's really no direction any more. I'm just freestyling. And that means I don't want it to be just another publishing platform when I'm done with it.

P.S. There was a spike in traffic over the past few days because I've been posting the link in different places. If the application didn't work for you, please try again, it will work now, I've upgraded the server to handle the load.

No, we weren't trying to sell a blogging platform. What we created was not what we wanted to create either. What we ended up creating was supposed to be a tiny piece of a much bigger overall vision.

I don't really want to go into a lengthy explanation right now but basically companies (especially the bigger companies) all do something called social responsibility. My co-founder's idea was to provide a different way of reporting their activities and a create a new standard for reporting and become the center of it.

Our vision/mission was to increase consumer awareness; bring 100% transparency and honesty to every single company; and motivate all companies to do honest social responsibility activities.

Ya, it's a long story but we never intended to compete with Medium. We are now, kind of. This product was created accidently.

If anyone uses what I built for their own personal use, I appreciate any feedback sent to me by email at hello[at]goodethos.com or jason.saeho[at]gmail.com.

Also if you're using the platform and want a new feature inside it. You let me know. I'll probably build it for you as long as you make good use of what I made.

One more reason why I'm doing this is because I'm a huge Meteor.JS advocate. Meteor.JS is great. You should use it.

Lastly I'm now looking for new cool projects to participate in or even a job. Please contact me if you're interested.

Thank you for comments and insight everyone.

I have one more question. If we were to pivot and open up the platform to all users, do you think we should sell the software to everyone from the start? Or should we offer it for free?

I know Zaroth suggested $99/mth corporate account. And I think that's probably a good idea.

You're right. Content is content and there's no difference between content about social responsibility and any other content. We may be making a big mistake by trying to limit ourselves to the topic of social responsibility.

We did that because social responsibility is the issue we want to tackle. And we thought that providing the tools to that user group is the right step.

I definitely see everyone's point.

The thing is we're literally trying to tell companies that there is a "different" and "better" way to do something they're already doing.

I know it looks like a Medium competitor right now, but what we're trying to do is provide a way for companies and nonprofits to talk about their social responsibility activities in an engaging way. From there we will provide discovery for the companies and thereby bringing awareness to consumers.

And from there we plan to provide initiatives publishing because most organizations have very common initiatives.

I can see why everyone is reacting this way.

And quite frankly, I kind of see it too. It's just that we are so obsessed with the idea of social responsibility that we can't get our minds out of it.

Problem is we are NOT like Medium. We have a completely different mission and we're not trying to solve/innovate publishing. THAT's what's so frustrating!!

The problem we're trying to solve is Social Responsibility. Without getting to much into what Social Responsibility is, we want to show companies of all sizes like Coca Cola, Starbucks all the way down to small organizations that there is a different way to do/report social responsibility.

But like I said in my original post, trying to convince organizations is like pulling teeth.

How do we know whether or not to give up our vision and just focus on publishing?

Our publishing platform is in beta and we are looking for feedback!

You can log in by username: demo-public, password: demo-public or create your account.

Thank you in advance!