If you're looking to cultivate this into a long term project, I'll offer some tips:
1. Notifications are going to make or break you. I had signed up for OhLife.com 2 years back and it emails me every single day with a gentle reminder to write about my life. It also chooses a random entry that I've written in the past so that I actually look forward to reading what banal things I had written about. Prioritize this over all else.
2. Support email entries. I have visited the OhLife website about 3 times in the last 2 years. My main interaction is through email. It also lowers the barrier to actually composing an entry. Your users can create and refine drafts throughout the day and only send it across when the reminder email comes in.
3. Create a mobile app (lower priority than the above two). I've found that my most profound thoughts and exciting experiences are when I'm traveling. A mobile app is exactly what one needs during those times (Note: I use the word "app" loosely. It could just be a mobile-friendly UI for your website)
4. With apps/websites like these which solve one specific problem, it's always best to keep the feature set very minimal (even though as a developer your likely motivation will be to keep working on new features).
We've had tremendous personal success using mock practice interviews to prepare for technical interviews. We found that by simulating a real interview situation, we felt more comfortable, confident and clear during the actual interview.
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To iron out the kinks, we are offering the Group sessions for free for a limited time. We also would like to hear your thoughts on how best we can help engineers in the job search.
Technical interviews require a lot of preparation and hard work to ace them. We've had great personal success using mock practice interviews to prepare. We found that by simulating a real interview situation, we felt more comfortable, confident and clear during the actual interview.
We want to scale that through helloworldinterviews.com. Our vision is to have qualified engineers around the world helping and educating other engineers to land lucrative and challenging tech jobs.
To iron out the kinks, we are offering the Group sessions for FREE for a limited time.
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1. I don't believe their site/demos are running the latest version of jQuery mobile (weird, I know).
2. Secondly, the resetting behavior can be easily handled now with the addition of beforechangepage by setting the current scroll position before transition and using $.mobile.silentScroll to update on page re-entry.
> try and curry favor with Apple and get a front-of-iTunes promotional slot
This works in the favor of big name brands who probably have a open sales channel through iAds which makes it easier for them to get promoted. It sucks for indie app developers who have limited ways of getting noticed by the Apple editorial team.
1. Gourmaide - http://www.gourmaide.com - iPad recipe app that aims to be different by rethinking the way recipes are presented in the tablet era.
2. The Daily Dealist - http://www.thedailydealist.com - A social deal aggregator site that's gaining some early traction.
3. Bouncy Tags - http://www.bouncytags.com - Some would say it's from a bygone era of start pages but I find it quite helpful. Add bookmarks by tags and access them from anywhere (even mobile). Links that you use more frequently gain prominence over time. Use invite code "letmein" here: http://www.bouncytags.com/signup
I wasn't exactly looking to make it a business but enough money to cover operational costs. The revenue could be a mix of affiliate links + Adsense (kept to a minimal).
The focus here is to create a community-focused treasure trove of startup knowledge rather than a page-view focused content site.
That site seems to solve the problem of finding book recommendations in a way that's easily filtered/sorted. I like the fact that it lists additional versions (ebook, pdf, etc.) of the book.
My thoughts were that the community might want to read reviews from a startup-oriented individual rather than the default synopsis from the book's publisher. I also imagined that multiple reviewers could review the same book (either on the hub site or their own blog).
1. Notifications are going to make or break you. I had signed up for OhLife.com 2 years back and it emails me every single day with a gentle reminder to write about my life. It also chooses a random entry that I've written in the past so that I actually look forward to reading what banal things I had written about. Prioritize this over all else.
2. Support email entries. I have visited the OhLife website about 3 times in the last 2 years. My main interaction is through email. It also lowers the barrier to actually composing an entry. Your users can create and refine drafts throughout the day and only send it across when the reminder email comes in.
3. Create a mobile app (lower priority than the above two). I've found that my most profound thoughts and exciting experiences are when I'm traveling. A mobile app is exactly what one needs during those times (Note: I use the word "app" loosely. It could just be a mobile-friendly UI for your website)
4. With apps/websites like these which solve one specific problem, it's always best to keep the feature set very minimal (even though as a developer your likely motivation will be to keep working on new features).
Good luck!