Dana Epp blogging the birth of a new product
Dana, a security expert I’ve been following for quite some time, is blogging his development of a new product, all in one month. It’s an interesting look into the development process that we rarely get to see.
Now, imagine Apple or Microsoft or Google or eBay doing the same.
Imagine that they let you participate, even a little bit, in the development of a new product.
But, no, they won’t try that. It’s too bad. When I did my book I accidentally found that building something in public view ends up with that end thing being a lot better because of the participation of the people who drop by. Not to mention that our search page rank is a lot higher than it would otherwise be (even bloggers who hated our book, and said “that chapter sucked,” added to our search engine ranking).
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August 17th, 2006 at 3:04 am
Robert, I agree. When we built netBake ( http://www.netbake.co.uk ) we put as much of the development process as we could on the site. I believe it made for a better product. The product is in the final stages of testing now and will be released soon.
Cheers,
Gary
http://www.garyshort.org/
August 17th, 2006 at 4:04 am
While I can see (indeed understand) it working for a product or a factual book, would it work for fiction?
I’m sort of trying it out
http://cork-host.blogspot.com/2006/07/push-part-one-of-3.html
mainly to force me to do it.
The “it” in this case is a stage play for submission in a one act play contest. My thinking is that watching the play is better than reading it, but you get to see the first form it held.
Dumb idea?
Will