Wow.. these messages got sent to my spam folder so I'm only now reading them.. Ugh.
Jason, Thank you very much for your thoughts. And you are not alone in thinking this way. Your right, the biggest problem I have is that MoDomhan can do SO much. So how do I create a short video to explain it. The answer turns out much like you explained: I can't. Let me first answer your main question: what can MoDomhan do that no other site/app can: It can give a non-programmer the ability to create a fully customized and feature-rich website without needing to hire a developer or designer. And full websites can be built in minutes. Sure you can build full websites, even customized websites in Wordpress. But you typically need to be a programmer to do so and you need to pay for the ability to customize your site. This is the main issue I am having with advertising. There are really important points from both the developer and the layman point of view: Developer side: You have a new and easy platform to develop on where you can make money and/or just play. Layman side: you can create your own website easily and with no need for a developer. As I explained above, this only touches the tip of the iceberg, but it's the driving force of MoDomhan so far. My current solution now is to break up the advertisements. I just released a new video (see http://www.modomhan.com/gallery.html) where I speak more to the laymen. I will be doing another one soon where I'll be speaking to the developers out there. So, all you developers: if you have questions (like Jason & Gabor) send them my way and I'll try to incorporate them into my next video. Gabor, Thanks very much for your feedback too. To answer *your* questions: I had originally planned on making this open source, but the more I worked on it, the more I realized that it would really work best as a hosted solution. I DO hope that MoDomhan becomes "A better Wordpress", but I honestly plan on it being much more than just that. For example, I'm hoping for this to become a useful platform for social/professional networkers who are tired of or frustrated with the current options. You raise a very good point though: people need to *know* me. I'll definitely be adding a section of my experience and expertise in the next video. And once I do that I'll also update the text on the campaign website. *Very* good feedback. Also you asked about a blog. Right now I've just got a news feed: http://www.modomhan.com/news I might eventually create a more proper blog. But this is working for my current needs. As for letting people in for Alpha testing: I would LOVE to. I simply haven't had enough for alpha users to play with to make it worthwhile (only have a couple widgets and background themes setup), plus it being in alpha it wasn't all that pretty. But I've made some good progress over the last couple weeks and might be open to letting some people in for alpha testing soonish. Do I have any interested parties here? Again, thank you so very much for the helpful feedback. And I'm so sorry for my delayed response. (I've added a new filter to prevent these messages from going into spam again). Hope you guys read this long-winded email :) Thanks! --Alex On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Jason McIntosh <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 17, 2012, at 12:45 AM, Gabor Szabo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Have you already written > > about your experience in a blog that could be shared? Have you given > talks about > > this at Boston.pm or YAPCs? Maybe now… > > In fact I gave talks to Boston.pm and other local gatherings circa 2006-7, > when I was in the thick of things and very optimistic. Here's a YouTube > from 2007: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsXIaDg7agQ&feature=g-upl > > A postmortem blog post that I wrote a couple of years after that: > http://prog.livejournal.com/953385.html > > I haven't otherwise turned my experiences into talks. > > (And I'm aware that volity.org does not in fact have any documentation on > it right now, alas. Scraping the doc-wiki out of the Wayback Machine is on > my TODO…) > > -- > Jason McIntosh > Appleseed Software Consulting > > [email protected] • www.appleseed-sc.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm > _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
