A gentleman by the name of Ezell apparently told his friend that I had made a successful business in a ridiculously short amount of time, so it must be possible. The friend disagreed. Ezell said “I’ll prove it!”, and has decided to one-up me in the process, by shaving a few days and dollars off my schedule. I personally think he will be able to do it, and am rooting for him.
The program is going to be called BabyAid, running in a niche roughly similar to TrixieTracker. I previously commented on the Business of Software message board that I believe this is a very underserved niche which one could really do a lot of good in with the right offering.
Incidentally, the friend was disagreeing as a result of his experience as a independent game developer. I agree, for a game developer to produce a game worth paying money for, 8 days and no budget for art or music assets will probably not cut it. Personally, I think that developing videogames is an excellent hobby if you like it (I have contributed to OSS ones in the past) but it makes a very poor choice for someone wanting to start a business. Maybe I’ll go into why on another post.
This article on SEO for bloggers is just amazing. I highly recommend anyone with a blog who doesn’t already consider them past the intermediate stage on SEO read it. I recommend absolutely everyone read the followup on how the original article was designed and marketed as a stunningly effective piece of linkbait. (Some might say that this makes the original article cynical. I disagree — it was and is very useful to many people, and there is no reason you shouldn’t promote things which are useful to your audience for your mutual benefit. Rails is another project which has proven that just because you’re professionally marketed and designed to go viral doesn’t mean you have to suck.)
Hideho, folks on the Internet. I run a small business which sells software that makes bingo cards, and every time a holiday runs around Google sends me a couple thousand people looking for holiday bingo cards. So you know what? I decided to make some early for Christmas this year, and give them away. Merry Christmas. There are couple varieties which you can find on my holiday bingo card page. Feel free to use them for any purpose you wish, print them out, play them with your family or class, whatever you want to do. And please, it’s Christmas — give them to anyone you think would want them. All of the card sets can be run off at your printer and come with instructions.
