The road to launch...
Matt Brezina, one of the founders of Silicon Valley's Xobni, once gave me some good advice. He said "use the ycombinator three months to build up a war chest of code".
Well we did. We got off to a slow start (June 10th) and we've been taking weekends off, but we finally overshot in the code department. On the spur of the moment yesterday we decided to scale back features and release.
Why?
1) We were forced to. Pagii, jottit, and even Piczo, were just too close to our idea. Pagii uses SVG and are backed by Freewebs. Aaaron Swartz is a genius and Piczo has at least a two year headstart.
2) We were losing momentum. Better to release, bomb, and then make something else. The sooner we know, the better.
3) It's exciting. It's fun to make something and then let people use it.
What?
In the end we decided to forego the customizable webpage market and focus on customizable homepages.
We really think that our site would represent a neat acquisition by a search engine start-up or could integrate well into the front-end of a social network.
Until this happens, we're are going to keep grasping for that magic word - profitability, and maybe one day write our own paychecks.
Wish us luck, I'm sure we'll need every ounce.
Mark Molckovsky
ClutterMe.com
Well we did. We got off to a slow start (June 10th) and we've been taking weekends off, but we finally overshot in the code department. On the spur of the moment yesterday we decided to scale back features and release.
Why?
1) We were forced to. Pagii, jottit, and even Piczo, were just too close to our idea. Pagii uses SVG and are backed by Freewebs. Aaaron Swartz is a genius and Piczo has at least a two year headstart.
2) We were losing momentum. Better to release, bomb, and then make something else. The sooner we know, the better.
3) It's exciting. It's fun to make something and then let people use it.
What?
In the end we decided to forego the customizable webpage market and focus on customizable homepages.
We really think that our site would represent a neat acquisition by a search engine start-up or could integrate well into the front-end of a social network.
Until this happens, we're are going to keep grasping for that magic word - profitability, and maybe one day write our own paychecks.
Wish us luck, I'm sure we'll need every ounce.
Mark Molckovsky
ClutterMe.com
posted by Mark M - Clutterme Founder at
7:41 PM
1 Comments:
It might fail if you allow the creation for a full website but then again it might not. I have used Piczo and it's awesome but even though free widgets are available all over the internet, I find that there is something special about a feature that is available with a service. Sad part is I do not know exactly what kind of unique and original feature one could add.
As for Pagii, I have tried it and while it might have success because its connection, it is not that great. While the field may seem over crowded, I would not give up yet on all the plans you may have for this site. Start it as just a homepage creation tool but I have a feeling there will be a demand for more. However, I'm just judging that on all the screencaps and great reviews so far.
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