About This Blog

Mission Statement:
To produce a new website every calendar month. The site doesn't have to be the next Google or MySpace, but should be interesting/useful.

Conspirators:
MattC - Does all the programming for the sites. This includes coding, DB, design and setting up hosting. And when I have time: marketing, sales, user interface design, site concepts, Q/A.

Guidelines:
The sites produced should be "fire and forget". This means it can't be a blog or some other site that requires constant updating from us. Therefore the site will generally fall into one of two categories. 1. Tool - A site that performs a useful function, for example GotAPI.com or KeepVid.com. 2. User Driven - A site where the content is provided by the users. Sites like Wikipedia.org, Flickr.com, or any of the million social networking sites fall into this group. The bottom line is maintaining one site is hard. Updating 12 new ones every year is impossible.

The site and all functionality will be built within the designated calendar month. If it's not done in time, then what is done will be launched and we will move onto the next site. Bugs may be fixed in old sites as they are found, but no new functionality will be added. The month following the launch of the site will be used to promote the site through web forums, press releases, blog postings...

The "I make the rules, so I can break them" clause:
We reserve the right to revisit any of our prior sites should the need arise. Say one of the sites really takes off and could use some new features that we didn't have time for originally. We would designate another calendar month to working on the site.