hang out here sometimes?
http://www.myspace.com/crusheedotcom
i am not totally buying the sensationalized reports that myspace is completely fucked and over with. we have one of these. you do too. add us.
start up = no sleep
there are a couple of sleep-deprivation caused typos in my last entry that are driving me insane but the most prominent one is “march of last year” when i talk about when the inception of this site was. it was most certainly march of 2009. not 2008. we aren’t THAT slow. gary vaynerchuk knows. gary also knows that sleep is not for people who are grinding it out. i’ve been awake for like 29 hours. i will typo as i please.
we are a little slow though. our coding team has been learning ruby on rails from scratch in order to develop on some existing for-hire code that was written for us by some genius who has since moved on to getting his graduate degree in computer science at stanford. we tried many times to lure him back into our arms but alas— he is determined to further his education which is admirable because he is very talented as it is. he will be super human by the time he is finished with school and will probably get the sweetest job ever… working at www.crushee.com in a few years! muahaha
things we are contemplating today.. likes/dislikes within our microblog. you know.. like “fuck this stupid post i am going to give it a thumbs down” annnd a way to arrange INSTANT virtual blind dates for yourself at the click of a button.
you are the generation of instant gratification afterall. you will sit at your computer eating a meal that went from refridgerator to microwave to your lap in less than 5 minutes and immediately fall madly in crushing with whoever you are blind dating with. then you will fall out of love as soon as the blind date ends and go find someone new to crush because you need everything at a fast pace. don’t worry. we are here for you!
alpha beta party time
my power went out and stayed out for like 15 hours. we live in the second largest city in the good ole’ US of A and you would think that this place would be some kind of a technological marvel but it really isn’t. we get a little rain (it rarely rains in LA) and some wind blowing around and suddenly 20,000 people are without power. i woke up from a nap last night around 10pm and i thought that i was sleep walking. i turned the light switch in my bedroom and nothing happened. then i walked into the living and four people were sitting around a candle giggling. this was very surreal.
so out of sheer boredom i went to bed around 3am which is early for me and woke up this morning to a ride from tomas. tomas is one of the partners working on the project at www.crushee.com. tomas and i went to lunch at a french cheese shop and ate lentil soup with expensive shit in it but it didn’t cost too much because the expensive shit was microsized as most french shit usually is. after lunch we went to tomas’ house so that i could be lavished in the modern marvel that is electric power (thank you tomas edison) and try to accomplish something. this involved a great deal of content sorting for my other company annnnd dun dun dun…. WORK ON CRUSHEE.
right now work on crushee is really exciting. we had a really exciting day. we rolled out an improved version of a previously existing microblogging/feed feature on www.crushee.com and i am very happy with the way it works. in the midst of my excitement i let like 10 more people onto the site and we proceeded to be silly and do a great deal of brain storming. i am firm believer in the idea that people and their tacit knowledge should be the driving force behind the way that any community is shaped. i think that myspace forgot all of the things that companies think about during the start-up period and that eventually this became their down fall. that and cold fusion but that’s a rant for another blog.
anyhow— we used the microblogging feature of CRUSHEE to brain storm some dating/sexy times/and other silly questions together. someone suggested that we ask users “does every rose have it’s thorn?” which gave me a good laugh. do you guys want to suggest some question too? do you want to help us alpha test crushee. i am mostly looking for really creative people who want to help us mold what this product is going to look like when it launches. we have the core elements but it’s really really really important to us that this site is built based on community feedback.
so anyhow— silly times are ahead. you will be silly with us. we realized late tonight that we began talking about this project around feb/march of last year. that means that if we launch on VALENTINE’S DAY (good launch date for a site that wants you to have a crush on everyone right?) that it will be one year in the making more or less. we originally estimated something like 60 days to get this site up. everyone always estimates way too low. this is all “part of the process” as the reassuring businessmen types that i talk to tell me.
i have come to the conclusion that envisioning, caculating, specing, testing, designing, developing and generally getting awesome while creating something marvelous and new on the internet is a lot like making a proper sauce. you have to add a little of this, add a little of that, put some more cream, taste it, add a little salt, taste it again, realize that you may have over salted, compensate by adding here and there and slowly build the perfect flavor.
we're building a website
five of us are building a website right now. sometimes building a website is really funny and frustrating. here i will maybe tell you some of the funny, frustrating, and pointless stories related to building our website at www.crushee.com— like once we went to this peruvian restaurant to have a meeting and a little bit of food and part way through our meeting some kind of awesome in-spanish karaoke started happening REALLY LOUD and all of the walls had these native peruvian motifs glowing in glorious blacklights and i could tell that three asian boys sitting at the table really wanted to do karaoke very badly because all asians love karaoke. it’s in their DNA. i am tone deaf. i don’t sing. i just want to have meetings and eat fries.
in the meantime you should go sign up to be part of our beta testing. you can do that by taking a peek at the site and giving us your email address. then you should check your email every day as if you are waiting to find out whether or not that dude from nigeria is going to finally transfer you those billions that he inherited from his uncle in paris.
