- startupSQUARE http://www.startupsquare.com
- Reincarnation of LazyWeb http://twitter.com/lazyweb
- LoveMyIdea http://www.lovemyidea.com
If you know something else that also works, I'd love to hear about them.
P.S. Neither one of these worked for me. :)
Oct
7
2010
Do You Want To Test Your Idea?
While there are plenty of places where you can "test your idea", I have recently came by the few of them:
Nov
7
2009
No freakin calendar out there?
Keeping in mind that it's 2009 coming to its end, I'm really surprised to not been able to find any good calendaring software that just integrates everywhere. It's only recently Google has enabled the CalDAV access for iCal, so now, thanks God!, I can manage all my calendars both online and on my Mac laptop.
However, not that fast.
My iPhone (come on, isn't is the greatest thing since sliced bread? :) can sync with iCal (not a decent approach for cloud-computing trending era), but fails to show any other calendars attached to my account. In addition to such a boomer, it gets synced with the weirdest name you can imagine (but who cares). I've also tried setting up a separate CalDAV account for calendar on iPhone as well as establishing Google sync through Exchange protocol - none of these things can show any additional calendars (called delegates in iCal).
So WTF?
Here is an idea. While so trendy cloud-computing managing panels are growing so fast, it looks like people managed to miss very basic things. The managing panel for Mail-AddressBook-Calendar kind of stuff. That has inputs and outputs, and dashboard. Manageable with drag and drop. Say, I want the Google Calendar, Google Mail and Yahoo Address Book (or, screw it, just native Mac Address Book.app). These are inputs. Outputs are connectors to any type of software you can imagine. Dashboard is one screen that allows to work flawlessly with you stuff. That's it. That easy.
Anyone?
Oct
27
2009
How to get a bunch of beta users in a few weeks
Find small blogs (10k-50k subscribers) relevant to your market and offer them 100-1000 signups with a custom-branded demo code. The blogger likes getting an exclusive for her readers, and the readers like getting insider access to a hot new tool. Contact a bunch of them at once, we felt lucky to have a roughly 20% hit rate.
Pretty creative, nice idea of bringing people on for beta testing your product. You know, once you release something, it's always a headache: "So what's up now?" Following this advice could give you at least a starting point.
Oct
13
2009
Giveaways thru Twitter
It seems that different drawings, giveaways and just ad campaigns are getting high on Twitter nowadays.
So I thought that it's an appropriate time for the product performing the full-cycle of running a giveaway on Twitter, giving the owner full set of tools to monitor activity, choosing the winner, publishing the results; as well as providing an entrant's with some analytics on the competition they are entering into, as well as some statistical calculations (according to different giveaways run though the product) on how many tweets do you need to post, what's the typical profile of the winner, etc.
This product doesn't need top be an academic innovation though. It should be:
- Easy for businesses to use. (It should NOT be free. Charge for it!)
- Fun, Fun, Fun for entrants. Stimulate. Advertise. Entertain. (Do you see an extra value for #1 already here?)
That's it folks. Anyone?
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