Yes, I’ve started yet another project. I’ve got tons of cycles spent on this, so I hope to be able to execute a really simple v1.0 and get it launched ASAP. The splash page is up. Go check it out in another tab... I’ll wait.
One interesting aspect of this project has been the planning. The really early conceptual stuff I did on MindMeister. What a great way to hammer out all the aspects of an idea you have kicking around your head. MindMeister allows you to be as broad (I started with a quick elevator pitch) or as deep (schema, models, controllers) as you want.
After this step, I used Fireworks CS3 to mockup some screens. Now, I thought Fireworks was just Macromedia’s wimpy Photoshop clone but since Adobe swallowed it, I think it’s trying to be a rapid prototyping tool. Which is fine by be, it worked great. I’ve never really worked with anything at this stage that let me mold pixels as easily as putty:
Without divulging too much, of course, here’s the pitch. (There are still some legal issues I’m working out with the largest search engine company.) It grew out of my frustration of trying to keep track of all the loose ends of various sites. dotfiles, lifemetric, taglol, this blog; they go on and on. All the information I needed wasn’t all together, so stuff randomly fell through the cracks and I didn’t know about some of the things I probably should have. I hope sitesmetric will fill this gap.
So imagine sitesmetric as being the one place you can go to see the latest traffic trends; mentions on sites like Digg, Slashdot, reddit, etc.; keyword positions; domain registrations; hosting details; and so on.
In the coming days I hope to share some more mock ups and comps.
Here is another mind mapping tool worth looking at
comapping.com