October 2009
6 posts
User Testing is Always Mind Blowing
Over the last week we have been user testing NestWell pretty extensively only to find that our application UX/UI style was a little confusing and perhaps even off-putting (yikes). :)
So, with a lot of hard work, we have completely changed the work flow. It is now a much more fun and straight forward user experience.
As a software developer I find it amazing how I can think something is...
What is the Proper Etiquette?
Mashable.com is having a lunchtime pole today (yeah, yeah I know…I love the site) asking readers what their favorite iPhone applications are…
As I’m reading I notice that within the first 20 comments there are two people pimping their own app.
First was Jason Wong:
zing! but I built it. Is that so wrong? After that’s Birdfeed, Byline, Facebook & Defender...
Microsft BizSpark
So, like I wrote yesterday, we have been struggling as software engineers on how to market our new start up. We think we have a nice and very useable product but how on earth do we show it to the people who would use it?
There are a lot of different avenues to take and one avenue approached me via email this morning.
The email I received was from Adam at Mashable.com (I emailed them yesterday...
Communication About a Start-Up. It's Not Easy.
NestWell.com is my first start up. Well, let me rephrase that, my first start up that I actually feel has value and hasn’t lost my interest in while building it.
In the past my start up ideas have been almost laughable. Perhaps this was due to youth or perhaps due to me constantly overcomplicating the idea. I have a feeling however it might have been due to my ideas not carrying any long...
Photos, Photos, Photos
Since our launch we have discovered something…a lot of the listings we send don’t have images!
Why? Because the listings we send are so new on market a lot of times an image has not been loaded into the MLS for it yet.
So, we’ve added a to-do item: Add ability to track no photos and re-sweep them. This will be happening sooner than later.
First Day Down!
Just warning you…I am writing this on my iPhone which means my writing may be worse than normal. :)
The first 24 hours of nestwell.com is officially over and I have to say things are going great! As of this morning we’re shipping off new real estate listings to Twitter users in San Francisco, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Boise and more!
The incredible thing to me is we’ve barely...