App School 2008
October 20th, 2008 | Published in appschool2008
Well it seems as though while I’ve been schlepping my way though a 6 thousand line XML document, someone has built half my web app. I guess I it is only fair and proper to explain what it is now that bits of it are leaking out on to the web. Here is the original pitch email I sent to Eoghan.
Subject:Uh oh. It’s a todo list.
Funny timing this – but I’ve just been for lunch with a guy who wants to have an online todo list written up. Not much of a challenge for the mighty contrast – but this one is a little different – it’ll get used.
Darrell O’Dea is a founder of www.theicesgroup.com. In recent months he has turned his hand to financial coaching and my partner and I have been meeting with him weekly to help grow our www.piehole.ie business. Anyway – Darrell
is considered by many to be pretty successful and he attributes that success to ‘doing five things a day’. He’s not ‘rolling in cash’ successful – but he is good at property investment and managed to ‘quit the day job’ by buying property on the side. If I thought the guy had any chance of shelling out the full fee for this I wouldn’t be writing to you.
Back to my story. It doesn’t really matter what the five things are – he just tries to get 5 done. Priscilla (that’s my partner) and I started out by trying the 5-a-day approach, tracking it all in a Google spreadsheet. It was VERY motivating to see how much work Priscilla had done in a day. If I was falling behind in the amount of items ‘ticked’ off, I’d feel real bad about it and get my arse into gear.
So you see where we are going here. We’d like to build a social todo list where two or more people can sign up and track their their ‘5 a day’ side by side.
Not that novel. So why pick this idea?
Darrell has access to a large database of wannabe entrepeneurs through theicesgroup.com and marketing is his specialty. He will build the system into his coaching business and charge people for telephone coaching using the system.
I know it’s frustrating to write something that never gets used. Pick this one and I guarantee it will.
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Ta
James