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.