BackupBrain: My MicroISV Venture

For awhile there, I was posting quite regularly, but then I started getting into initial development work. Actually, I’ve done a lot less coding than I’d have liked but I now have a lot more of my ideas and direction sorted out. For instance, I now know that ThoughtFiler needs to be a desktop product first, and a web service second. I still believe the web service would be unique and innovative enough to succeed, but it needs to go on the back burner while I concentrate on getting a 1.0 desktop version out there.

With all the thinking I have been doing about how to structure the product and the user interfaces required, I am once again excited by it and can see the benefits that it will provide. Heck, I want to start using myself NOW!

Matt Cornell‘s article, Where’s the IDE for personal information?, has been quite helpful in finetuning some of my own ideas for ThoughtFiler.

The downside is that I’m no longer sure exactly how to code all this, the upside is that I have now confirmed in which direction I need to go.

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Workflow…

I’ve also been thinking a lot about workflow at the moment… What types of information do people deal with in their daily lives? How do they keep it for later referral?

How do people use paper? What areas are best handled by PIM software? And what, if anything, is best left to paper? Some things are just better done in physical form (or paper first, then digital).

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It is quite a challenge to find the right balance between advancing my product/company, retaining enough energy to give my day-job my best (after all, it is through that salary everything else is being accomplished), and maintaining a healthy social life so as not to become some kind of hacker hermit!

Ever onward!