Gonna Be Iron... Lion... in Zion... (B. Marley)

It Ain't Over, It's Just Taking a Breather.

It's a new quarter.  I look back at this blog and I'm tickled.  This is the true history of a startup here.  I take a breath...

Report of current status:

  Giving up?

   Hardly - Here's where we are on the plan:

(FROM LAST POST)

Step 1.  Adapt the extjs 3.0 application to Sencha Touch (called ST) 2 (ST2) in pieces that can be integrated into other sites, just like CwhatIcanDo guts provide the innards for CwhatIdid and Globalheart. 80%

  A. First conversion -  Create the iLinks functions, get them operational.  

       Step 1:  i-mon.net/test2 will become the landing zone for the i-mon app and you will have a login ID and password based on the one in CwhatIcanDo. DONE
       Step 2: in two steps Landing will provide a sample list which can be played with.  But Login ID and Password entry will be ripped directly from CwhatIcanDo and can be imagined first in html, but made for HandHeld browsers, then you pop into the app. DONE

Next Steps:  (Target Completion - When it is done :-)
      Step 3: The login Id and or Registration will be "ported" to Sencha 
      Step 4: test2 will be ported to "index.html" when one arrives at i-mon.net

Yeh, It has been a little depressing... Rejection by the place I really want to be Kickstarter.  Reaction, complete Step A.   I put enough energy into it to bring it to Step A.2.  With this completed, I don't mind holding for a while. This was the step I needed to "shelve" the idea for a while.


I had a Eureka Moment!


In the original instantiation of I-Mon, the App, we were worried about how to preserve security and have a recovery method for people who lose their phones.  This meant we had to worry more about the web-based situation which is, in the end, the primary reason I couldn't get the kickstarter project to work.  the i-Centric App was not completely i-Centric - It needed a network.  Kickstarter won't even consider listing a network.

I don't have a mailing list, so I don't have the capacity to reach a bunch of people and show them the project, so I went bust on Indie Go Go, not quite bust, but yes... Bust!

Kickstarter brings Silicon Valley trend-spotters.  They will be able to understand why the i-Mon app is the way people WANT things to work.  So the idea has a better chance to get going, especially if the app stands alone and gives you a level of extra security.

Apparently, from reading this blog, this is exactly the move-forward plan I devised and have begun to execute for the App.   Here's what is happening.

1. The silicon valley paper had an article to show Teens are moving away from FaceBook (Hmmm) They want something else, less clutter...
2. Andrei, my partner in development crime (crimeney perhaps :-) calls from London and says he is inspired to build an App (Gee Andrei, I have one in mind, and I solved the issues with having to build a network to do it.)
3. My son described the app i-Mon needed to become and tried to point me to this, I think I captured it son.
4. Still, when anyone sees/or is described the App, EVERY SINGLE PERSON is interested.
5. I can still make it a Free App (It will KILL in Android's Everywhere on the planet.)
6. The money stream will produce positive cash flow as a % of users will want the even more secure and fully backed-up  $version!!!!

So, the i-Mon App is Back in Play!!  Woo Hoo!

Here we go again on the startup merry-go-round...  This time it will fill the bill...

I am very excited.

The Mighty (or Nearly Mighty) Have Fallen

You'll remember last time....

Thus begins this report

kickStarter:  Kicked Off - No Networks Allowed
indiegogo:    Attempted to show off prototype, I don't have the Mailing List, nor probably did I exploit it enough.

Conclusions: Let it Stand, but divert the effort.

Next Steps:  Develop One Key Function of the App, completely.  Then put it up in the App Store. Incredibly, I have all the pieces for just such an endeavor, the creator's panel on CwhatIcanDo.

Step 1.  Adapt the extjs 3.0 application to Sencha Touch (called ST) 2 (ST2) in pieces that can be integrated into other sites, just like CwhatIcanDo guts provide the innards for CwhatIdid and Globalheart.
  A. First conversion - Create the iLinks functions, get them operational.
       Step 1:  i-mon.net/test2 will become the landing zone for the i-mon app and you will have a login ID and password based on the one in CwhatIcanDo.
       Step 2: in two steps Landing will provide a sample list which can be played with.  But Login ID and Password entry will be ripped directly from CwhatIcanDo and can be imagined first in html, but made for HandHeld browsers, then you pop into the app.
      Step 3: The login Id and or Registration will be "ported" to Sencha
      Step 4: test2 will be ported to "index.html" when one arrives at i-mon.net

 B. Create A HomePage for browsers (and another for browsers in phones)

 C. Make the i-mon.net homepage into an application.

STOP:   We are finished with the project at this point.  We have created a landing place, and we know and have verified launching an app for iPhone and Android (maybe more?) via PhoneGap  

Now we are ready for our next project:  I Think I want To Start a Business App!

Bye for now...  Soon Come a Cool Home Page

Go Go to Indie go go

I contemplated dividing the app, but decided to put it on a crowdfunder which permits social networking apps.   I chose Indiegogo, they are a whole google pr point behind kickstarter, so not a great place to be discovered, in fact, they want me to send emails to the world (spam) everyone and get more clicks.  Hmmm, again we see a disconnect in the offerings out there to get funding.

At this point I'm a couple weeks into the four-week run and all I get is messages from indiegogo telling me to get more hits, so I can be featured on their site.   So that's how you bring lots of hits to your website?  This isn't gonna work.

So, I'm faced with cutting back and delivering one function at a time, building out the network single-handedly, or trying something new, not much in there is going to stop me or discourage me, so I'll probably move the effort into some other modality, or all this stirring around will cause me to move to a whole 'nuther app. 

Soon Come.

While I wait for the judgement from kickstarter.

During this time... 

I have pondered what I will do if this project fails... 

What will become a new kickstarter project?

Feedback from kickstarter is important.  Current rules prohibit submissions having to do with social networks, this could kill us, right out of the chute, or it could open a relationship with kickstarter.

I can suggest reducing the span of the project with i-Stuff, and that will help the project become more successful.

This would be a simpler app, that simply gives  you a private place in that is like your home page, or the main page on your current computer, to help bridge the technology gap between desktop computational power and the perspective of the tiny intimate interface of  your phone. 

i-Stuff App!  

If I rip the networking functions out of i-Mon, then I have i-Stuff.  Part of a bigger picture that will ultimately include one within the other.

Total rejection of this idea by kickstarter, would mean I will  have to go create a kickstarter funded project to replace kickstarter with something more suited to the investors.  Wouldn't they like a piece of the pie? Would they be interested in starting a fund to fund?  This means they could invest in the idea as well as simply pay to be first.

We wait, but patiently look to the new opportunity this process starts us out on...

Lion-Mon Leads With Heart

i-Mon: An i-Centric App. Keep Secrets. Share Privately.

by Jim Huffman

Submitted: Dec 21, 2012

Status: Pending 

We sent it out for others to review and critique.

Blessings... 

i-Mon Soon Come

Ready for launch!  That's right, the draft presentation, complete with video introduction and the "demo" is being reviewed by the main team member: Andrei.   Then it will be reviewed by the rest of the team at The ETCETERA Group, who own the IP for the idea.  Then we put the proper dates in and submit to kickstarter.

We've got everything ready, save a little cleanup and prettifying things so the participants can all get going as soon as the project gets funding.   We are looking for less money than people, though up front, we expect a lot of designers to help nail down the release functionality, then those system testers will kick in and beat the tar out of both the app and the network that supports it (i-mon.net.)

That means, when the kickstarter project is complete, it will result in the release of the i-Mon App in all it's glory.

I will get back to you at launch time with links to the project on kickstarter, just in case you want to play with your own i-Centric network, by joining the kickstarter team yourself.

It is no longer vaporware, though it is not all glued together yet, it is demonstratable for friends and family during this pre-release buildout and test time.

We hope to get several thousand participants from kickstarter, this will allow the app to be free, especially with the ability to make advertisers your friends, so they feed you ads to "stay hip." With the bonus of being able to get ads and specials on the stuff you need.

Soon Come, I-Mon!!!!

The Maiden Voyage

We are soon to launch our app!

I'll keep you posted on activities as we progress, that way I don't give away anything that someone will consider secret.

Obviously, this is one of the first acts in organizing and creating the App.  There are some things we do know and will share as soon as possible.