Good progress today

It is Tuesday, March 17th, 2am. First, happy St. Patrick’s day. It is also my daughter’s birthday.

But what I’m writing about is that the time I was able to devote to Sendvee today ended up being quality time. Another couple days of this, and we will be in closed pre-Alpha.

If you missed it, I posted a twitpic of my release schedule:

So far so good. Sign-up process is nearly complete. As well as finishing the core functionality, step 1. Just a few loose ends to tie up on each. When I have just that, I’ll start letting some people in while I continue to finish the core functionality, step 2.

I do still have the issue of the server I am working on. The server I am on now is Dreamhost shared hosting which goes down quite often. Brent Spore (@iboughtamac) has offered to help me with server space, and we are trying to work that out. His server runs PHP 4.3 and I need 5. Hopefully it will all get worked out.

After that, the sky is the limit. I have a huge list on paper of what I’m going to do, but I just need to get these core pieces out, and organize what comes next by what you guys want.

I can be honest with you all, right? Great. The core functionality is basicly what topify and twimailer do. If that is all I was going for, I could have been finished just after the first weekend of coding this. But Sendvee is going to do so much more, it’s just silly to think about. [But the irony is, right now, I can't really think about it, or I'll want to code it in, and then I won't get the core done. You see where I'm going with this?]

Ok, enough rambling. Time to sleep so I can do it all over again tomorrow, only awesomer.

Arik Fraimovich

Hi Jeremy,

Stumbled at your blog post through Google Alerts. I'm the co founder and developer of Topify. Just wanted to say, that if we were only going for what we currently have, we would have stopped developing it long ago. But we have higher plans than what we have now. I don't know when you signed up for our beta, but if you were long enough with us, you can already see the incremental improvements.

Besides that, I saw that you mention on your site that you thought of the idea first, while it doesn't really matter - wanted to tell you that this guys: http://twitter.com/twitlater probably thought of it before all of us...

Arik :)

jeremyvaught

Hi Arik!
Thanks for the comment. Yes, I do realize you are continuing to build. You are doing a great job. And if I said I thought of it first, I misspoke. I meant that I thought of it a while ago, have been thinking about building it, and now I'm working on building what I've been thinking about. I also doubt I'm the very first the think of the idea. I just thought of it before I found Topify. But finding you inspired me to start mine. :) Thanks for the inspiration. :D

And I'm all about the incremental improvements. That's what I plan to do as well. I worked with your fellow Frenchman, Loic Le Meur, at Seesmic for over a year, and I have adopted his style of building an app by getting a little core out there, and building from there. I think you guys are doing the same thing.

Finally, I only bring up Topify because you are getting a lot of press right now. I'm using it, as you pointed out, and the value I get from it is great. A large part of this is an experiment for me as I've never written my own web app before. So I'm learning a lot in this process.

Thanks again for your comment! Perhaps we'll meet at a Twitter app conference one day, there is enough applications out there now to host it's own conference. :)

Jeremy

Arik Fraimovich

Hi,

Well if you need help, let me know ;-)
Email me (arik@arikfr.com), if you want.

Arik

BTW, Loic is one of Ouriel's best friends, so we know what you're talking about :)

jeremyvaught

haha, if I get stuck I'll be sure to ask. :) Thanks for the offer. :D

Jeremy