Back stage, the building of Simpleweight.com. Why did we build Simpleweight?
With any project or goal, we personally like to define our own success. Yes, we are human, and of course we value other people’s opinion, but we really try to rely on our own internal value system.
Consequently, before we started creating simpleweight, we defined how we would know our project was successful. If you look at our pricing structure (only $18/year), you already know we’re not out to make a fortune. In fact if you take into account our referral system ($5 per referral), you are certain we’re not going to make a fortune!
So you ask, why did we build simpleweight.com? Here are our goals for success:
- We learn about technologies that are new to at least one of us. Such as:
- Ruby on Rails
- mySQL
- Linux
- Apache / Mongrel
- AJAX
- We deploy Simpleweight to the public and generate 10 hits a day.
- We learn something (anything) from our simple weight project.
We decided that if that’s all we got, we’d be happy.
May 2007 editor update: If you are reading this post, we have achieved our first level of success; we’re happy.
But then we asked – what would make us even happier?
- We help ourselves maintain our own goal weight by using simpleweight.
- We help our friends and family maintain their own goal weight by getting them to use simpleweight.
- We learn about Entrepreneurship.
- We learn about small-team self-development and self-marketing of web applications to the general public.
- Simpleweight revenues cover it’s expenses. In other words, we break even and our wives don’t kill us for shelling out money every month to maintain simpleweight!
June 2007 editor update: We’re working on achieving these success goals. Please join now and refer your friends to help us achieve the next level of simpleweight success: happier .
Well all that certainly would be great… but what would make launching simpleweight fantastic?
- Help large numbers of total strangers maintain their own goal weights by getting them to use simpleweight.com.
- Create a profitable business that provides a good side income.
- Provide new features that take the stigma out of maintaining a happy and healthy diet
- Learn the complexities of maintaining High Traffic, 24×7 Public Websites.
Now that would be fantastic!
Ok, now that we’re fantastic, let’s push the envelope and make Simpleweight ecstatic:
- We help make a dent in lowering the Obesity and Overweight Population Levels around the world by getting users to use Simpleweight to manage their Food in = Food Out equation.
- Create a highly profitable business venture which gives us the maximum financial freedom and financial security to pick and choose what (if any) projects, jobs, and vocations we want to pursue at any time in the future.
Note: Contact us now if you’d like to provide our financial freedom by purchasing simpleweight.
There you have it. We basically want to learn a lot and help everyone we can along the way. I hope you’ll join us for our journey as we try to meet some of these goals!
Sincerely,
Scott & Ryan – you’re Simpleweight proprietors, developers, and fellow users.