One Week After Launch

So it’s been a week after launch, and I’ve not had much time to do any development. Most of my time has been taken up responding to emails, hacking my sales website, introducing a new plan, and sending emails out to my lists. Today I introduced a $9/month pricing plan. Now I have the following [...]

Bidsketch Public Launch

So I’ve now been live with Bidsketch for several days now. Things are going well still, though my paid signups have decreased as expected. I’m going to be working on adding a new pricing plan to Bidsketch. Right now I have Free and Premium. I think a Basic plan will give people a much needed [...]

Pre-Launch Update

So far so good. I’ve received some great feedback and I’ve had a lot more people sign up than I thought would So far, my visitor to account signup conversion rate is at about 25%! And about half of those are paid accounts. I received some “media buzz” from about.com: Blog post http://webdesign.about.com/b/2009/10/14/new-tool-launches-bidsketch-limited-time-offer.htm Product review [...]

Bidsketch is Live!

I’ve just launched Bidsketch! It’s been a very exciting day today. Last night I was starting to get nervous thinking that no one would sign up for either the premium or free accounts. The premium is just $9/month which is really low, but it’ll be going up in three days. The URL currently is: http://launch.bidsketch.com [...]

Bidsketch Sales Website

This weekend I got to work on the Bidsketch sales website. I’ve made decent progress so far; in fact I could possibly be done with the sales website by tomorrow night. I’ll still have to set up WordPress on my production server, but that shouldn’t be too bad. I figured I’d show an early screenshot [...]

First Season of Fringe

I’ll start off by saying that I don’t watch TV at all. When I say that, I mean I never, ever, watch TV. EVER. I’ve mentioned that before and I’ve had people say “Oh yeah, I don’t really watch TV either. Maybe an hour or so, but that’s it.” Well that’s not what I mean [...]

Cities and Ambition

I live in south FL. This place often feels like the absolute worst possible environment for someone trying to launch a web startup. It seems like no one here understands or cares about anything having to do with tech. So this Paul Graham essay really struck a chord with me when I read it tonight: [...]