Hi, thanks for your comment. Whilst I haven’t used basecamp before, I’ve used trello quite extensively. Suppose each team in a company had its own board, and each board had lists splitting milestones into ’this week’, ’this month’ and ‘this year’. Sure, you could go through each board and see what teams were up to, but wouldn’t it be easier if you could aggregate all of that data in one place? Wouldn’t trello boards become even more complicated if you wanted to add the concept of individual lists, whilst still maintaining the format ‘this week’, ‘this month’ and ‘this year’? Lastly, I’ve yet to see how trello could provide a ‘timeline’ visualisation of milestones that were achieved in the past alongside those which are still yet to be achieved.
Basecamp, on the other hand, does appear to provide a ‘timeline’ visualisation of a project, but the service seems to focus more on keeping ‘stuff’ to do with a project in one place. My proposal is very different in that it focuses solely on milestones. Users would have the ability to group similar milestones together, for example ‘achieve X sales’ where the value of X could then be plotted on a graphed alongside the date achieved. This would allow, say, a team lead to monitor the progress of an individual or the team itself. I think this is quite different from basecamp’s offering.
We're a little different in that we actually send you everything you need to make the dish (minus salt, pepper & olive oil). Forage would be considerably less valuable to me if I still had to make the trek to the grocery store and deal with all the waste that goes along with that.
I'm actually working on a service which sits on top of SoundCloud. It's still in its infancy, but I'd love to hear what people think of the concept; the service aims to help musicians and photographers expose their content to a wider audience, and on the flip side, allows you to sit back and listen to a playlist of music whilst enjoying a beautiful photo slide show. The playlists are tailored to a user's mood, and you're able to filter the music based on genre. The website's voliyo.com, and if anyone's interested in signing up to the beta as a photographer or musician, feel free to message me for an invite code!
The service I'm working on is still in its infancy, but I'd love to hear what people think of the concept; it basically helps musicians and photographers expose their content to a wider audience, and on the flip side, allows you to sit back and listen to a playlist of music whilst enjoying a beautiful photo slide show. The playlists are tailored to a user's mood, and you're able to filter the music based on genre. The website's voliyo.com, and if anyone's interested in signing up to the beta as a photographer or musician, feel free to message me for an invite code!
So, here'd be my concern with that. I very rarely put on music and just "experience" it. Usually when I put on music it's in the background while I work on other things. I can't imagine myself ever wanting to look at a photo slideshow while listening to music.
Thanks for the feedback! You're not alone in sharing this view, so I'd definitely like to try and find a conceptual workaround for those who like to keep their music open in a background tab.
Another instance of killing entrepreneurialism: It is common for university admission contracts in the UK to contain clauses stating that the university owns anything you create whilst attending the institution. Again, this lead to many of my peers hiding software they had created (which was clearly a great shame) and/or constantly worrying about what rights they had.
As it so happens I've just launched a service built on top of SoundCloud. voliyo.com (non-mobile for now) aims to help musicians and photographers expose their content to a larger audience, and on the flip side, allows you to find new music whilst sitting back and enjoying a photo slide show!
If any photographers/musicians are interested in trying out the private beta, PM me and I'll happily dish out the invite links :)
Basecamp, on the other hand, does appear to provide a ‘timeline’ visualisation of a project, but the service seems to focus more on keeping ‘stuff’ to do with a project in one place. My proposal is very different in that it focuses solely on milestones. Users would have the ability to group similar milestones together, for example ‘achieve X sales’ where the value of X could then be plotted on a graphed alongside the date achieved. This would allow, say, a team lead to monitor the progress of an individual or the team itself. I think this is quite different from basecamp’s offering.
Hope that answers your question!