I got some feedback on my blog and my current project dalister – the productivity driven startpage! Yeah! It’s great to see that even though the number of visitors is still very low it is increasing and people seem to be interested in what I’m doing and writing about. Benny from www.vanderbeurse.de (a blog about financial topics) commented on my previous post regarding dalister and mentioned remember the milk as a potential alternative to dalister. I have used remember the milk in the past but still find it too cumbersome to actually use it as the nice, handy and easy to use tool I have in mind. (more…)

Category: Business Ideas by Stefan | 6 Comments »

It’s been a while since I posted on my blog which is mostly due to a lack of motivation to be honest. It is hard to fill a blog like this with content when there is almost no feedback. I know this is something I just have to deal with because my blog is still at a very early stage but it kind of makes it hard to movtivate myself. However, I was looking at one of my previous posts the other day and I realised that someone had actually tweeted about it! Wow! That really boosted my motivation and I thought this might just be the right time to talk about a project I have been working on for the last few months. It is called dalister (which is still a working title at this stage) and I’d say it is a productivity driven start page. Yeah, that sounds boring and anything but spectacular but I really think that there is no nice and easy solution available out there yet. (more…)

Category: Business Ideas by Stefan | 6 Comments »

I recently watched a video of Josh Petersen talking at the Seattle Startup Day 2009 where he mentioned the concept of finding business ideas by solving your own problems. When I thought about this concept I realized that this is quite a powerful but simple method which I have already used many times without even being aware of. When I started my first project Movie-Trade in 2001 I just solved my own problem because I wanted to show people a list of movies I owned but excel or word files were just so damn inconvenient. Josh explains in his talk that by solving their own problems the founders of startups/projects like Basecamp (www.basecamphq.com) and Ruby on Rails (www.rubyonrails.org) found their (business) ideas. Pretty simple but very effective. (more…)

Category: Business Ideas, Creativity by Stefan | 1 Comment »