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This is the first part ( Part II here ) in a series of posts about the first web app I wrote for myself, TweetingMachine . I’ll cover every aspect of its creation and development, starting at how the idea came to me, the many, many mistakes I made, and how eventually I improved the tool so much that it now brings in $500 a month, a figure that increases with each month. I realise that this isn’t a huge amount of money, but it’s a nice present. December 2009: The Idea
Building a Web Application that makes $500 a Month – Part I | SaaS Adventures
Building a Web Application that makes $500 a Month – Part II | SaaS Adventures
A quick recap from where I left off in Part I : starting with all of the business ability of a dried plum, I developed an unpopular Twitter tool called TweetingMachine ; after nine months, I was ready to scrap in its entirety and mark the whole sorry app as a failed experiment; just before I gave up, a friend pointed me towards ThemeForest , and suggested a couple of themes . October 2010: What a difference a design makes I bought the themes, and sat down to integrate them. I was expecting this to take a lot longer than it did: in the end, it took me a few hours over the course of the evening. Bedtime was approaching, and I chose to spend the last hour of the night harassing my ever-patient fiancée with over-enthusiastic demonstrations of TweetingMachine’s new-found greatness. You see, over the past few months, my hatred for TweetingMachine had built up day by day, its cheery colours and shiny logo only heightening my sense of failure.Behind the Project: Pic A Fight — PaulStamatiou.com
09 Mar 2011 Last week was interesting. Chad and I took a random idea — a "photo off" FaceMash -like site built on the Instagram real-time API — from whiteboard to successful launch.
Hiten Shah wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars on past business ideas (and you can in this video how painful those losses are to him). Then he discovered the lean startup approach to product development and everything changed. At his latest company, KISSMetrics, development is faster, cheaper and tightly connected to what customers really want. In this program Hiten reveal the mistakes that he made before he discovered the lean startup concepts.
How KISSMetrics Uses The Lean Startup Philosophy – with Hiten Shah | Case Studies & Business Tips
Hacker News | Show HN: Buffer - My November Sprint App
Been working away on the MVP for most of the last month, so it's awesome to be able to keep working on it having got the "launch" out of the way. I've been lucky to have some great friends trying it out for weeks now and helping me shape it, so this doesn't feel like a huge event, just another step in iterating to keep improving the product.
How Fusionapps Goes From Idea To Product – with Jess Pugsley | Case Studies & Business Tips
Joining me for this program to help answer that question I invited Jess Pugsle of Fusionapps , because he’s the guy I call up when I’m trying to figure out how to use software to solve my audience’s problems. Fusionapps has helped create and breath new life into hundreds of web apps for big companies like Toys R Us and smaller startups that you’ve never heard of. Jess Pugsley is the Managing Director and Chief Strategist at Fusionapps .UX, Design, and Food on the Table
(One of the common questions I hear is how to reconcile design and user experience (UX) methods with the Lean Startup. To answer, I asked one of my favorite designers to write a case study illustrating the way they work, taking us step-by-step through a real life redesign. This is something of an IMVU reunion. The attendees at sllconf 2010 were wowed by Food on the Table's presentation .