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 [...]
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Bidsketch is Live!
Posted by admin on October 13, 2009
http://www.extendslogic.com/before-launch/bidsketch-live/
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 [...]
Posted by admin on October 5, 2009
http://www.extendslogic.com/before-launch/bidsketch-sales-website/
SixCentral Update
So it’s been a few days since I posted the big news about my first acquisition. The last few days I’ve been lost in emails, tweets, and survey results. At this point I have two proposal SaaS based apps that focus on designers. Obviously lots of overlap and I’m not going to be able to [...]
Posted by admin on September 28, 2009
http://www.extendslogic.com/before-launch/sixcentral-update/
Something Big Just Happened
I’ve just made my first acquisition! Not only that but it’s a product in my niche. Not just in my niche, but it’s web based proposal software — just like Bidsketch. It’s called SixCentral and it’s pretty impressive stuff. Here’s the official announcement I made on the Bidsketch blog: http://www.bidsketch.com/blog/articles/big-news/ Here’s the announcement on the [...]
Posted by admin on September 17, 2009
http://www.extendslogic.com/before-launch/big-happened/
Flash Intro for My Screencast
I’m sure I have better things to do, but I did some work on the Bidsketch screencast tonight. I didn’t get too far with the actual video or the script, but I feel pretty comfortable with the software now. Reading the screencast lesson posted by Ian Ozsvald in the Academy, I came across this this excellent [...]
Posted by admin on September 13, 2009
http://www.extendslogic.com/before-launch/flash-intro-screencast/
Private Beta Launched!
I’ve been working like crazy this last week trying to get Bidsketch into private beta. I’m exhausted and I worked till 5 AM twice this week, but I’ve managed to launch the beta! Woohoo! I’d be more excited if I wasn’t so exhausted I’d like to take a break but being that I need to [...]
Posted by admin on September 13, 2009
http://www.extendslogic.com/before-launch/private-beta-launched/
Dashboard Screenshot
As I’m wrapping up my first product I’m also gathering valuable feedback from several friends and a few designers that I selected for the private beta. I don’t have Bidsketch ready for use yet, but I’ve been taking screenshots and videos to help get some of that extra-early feedback So I wanted to write a [...]
Posted by admin on August 30, 2009
http://www.extendslogic.com/before-launch/dashboard-screenshot/
Private Beta Update
These days I’m pretty busy wrapping up Bidsketch so I’ll just post a quick update on how I’m getting ready for the launch. Initially I was going to launch to a public beta, slap a feedback form on my product and hope for great feedback. Two weeks of feedback and bug fixes/small enhancements would then [...]
Posted by admin on August 22, 2009
http://www.extendslogic.com/before-launch/private-beta-update/
Too Much to Do
Ok, I now have a couple of weeks left and I still have an incredible amount of work to do. I’m going to have to remove some incomplete features to make my deadline or I’ll never make it. The good thing is that a lot of the code is there so I have a head [...]
Posted by admin on August 9, 2009
http://www.extendslogic.com/before-launch/too-much-to-do/
Three Weeks to Go
I think the fact that I have less than a month to go before I launch my product is just starting to sink in. I’d probably feel a lot better about things if I was further along than I am now. As it stands, I’m rewriting the proposal creation process which is the largest, most [...]
Posted by admin on August 3, 2009
http://www.extendslogic.com/before-launch/weeks/