Well, the Grapheety team has been having a wild last few months. We all do this part time and for the first 6 months spent at least 20-30 hours per week on it (we all work full time as software developers, designers, and consultants). So we were going pretty crazy for a while.
Things changed. Nick got a new job first, congrats! But he is the primary developer, and IT guy (though he denies it). So that slowed things down. Then Brett moved to Argentina, which sounds like fun, but they don't exactly have the same internet access that we have in Minneapolis. Next, I got a new job, where I commute back and forth to Chicago, which is delayed about 90% of the time. And then finally, to round things out, Jon moved to Denver and get a new job as well!
With all these changes it's been hard to keep up our todo list.
Finally we're all getting back into a rhythm though and have been getting closer to a new release. We're getting back to simplicity first. We thought we didn't have many bugs, but any bugs we found were from us abusing HTML a little bit. So we're going away from some bubbly graphics and going to a more pure HTML elegant design.
We're also removing some of the layers. Stories will just be the story with comments in the bottom. Rating will be easier as well. We realized not a lot of people rate. I wonder why? Because it is on another page? Or is there really just no motivation for people to do it. But we're going to streamline it, so if people want to rate other's stories and help with the quality of the overall content, it will be pretty quick.
Other than that, we're introducing some light profiles. Some of our posters are so awesome that people want to know details about them! So we're going to let people share a little about themselves.
Other ideas we're tossing around - Facebook application, Videos, Photo editing, groups of stories, direct messaging, and new contests!
Enjoy!
Gavin Quinn - Grapheety Artist
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