My Dream App - Anders Melin

Out!

2006-10-05T21:18:42Z

Hey.

So I am out. Finished at a good twelfth place

Thanks for everyone who voted on the idea. Busting at this stage and considering the idea being in this “not-very-voter-appealing-state” proofs there is a good market for it. Therefor I wouldnt be surprised to see something very similar out there soon. Hopefully even integrated in 10.5.

I didnt realised how much time needed to be put into this project when submitting my idea. I just had no chance by giving it the time required to make it a top of the top candidate. Sorry for that folks, I know many of you have the time and would nothing more than be selected.

Sad was also that I missed this weeks presentation update. Now I had some mock ups people seemed to like, but when I sat down to write a new presentation the voting had already just started(I was in the second place then BTW :) 10 voters or so ). I’m quite sure we started 24h earlier this round. Am I wrong?

Anyway. I never think I could present this idea so that it become a winner no mather how much time and effort I had put in it.

For the rest of the contestors. I’d really like to see this competion finish with a fair fight. Spamming on digg.com is not what I consider fair. Hope to see less of that BS in the coming rounds. Good luck and may the BEST APP win.

/Anders

Help me out boys! Graphic genius needed.

2006-10-01T00:41:53Z

I tried advertising on a major swedish geek board about this few days ago but the only one interested seems to have bailed out. Yup, I’m seeking a graphics wiz for help with mockups for my idea. If you like the idea and have some nice ideas for appealing mockups I need you. Bad. And fast.

As I offered then I do now. Help me get into top three and get the macbook. I’ll keep the contract ;) Ok, I can agree It’s not very likely this will occur, but hey, stranger things has happend.

Marketing

2006-09-28T01:14:05Z

Some short thoughts on marketing

I want a free superstickie reader so that anyone who stumbles on a superstickie will be able to read(/see/hear) it. However, to create a superstickie one must have a licence. This way I belive the use and amount sold will increase greatly.

I think a singel licence is a $15 thing, max. Tenpacks available with a discount. The ten pack thing is mainly for companies who uses stickies internally, but shares their stuff to left and right, thinking it would be nice if their clients used them to. Telling the client to buy their own licence could look bad, so having a few extra keys to give away would be nice.

Thats all

/Anders

The basics

2006-09-27T00:16:35Z

Next round of voting is soon to start. Here are the basic functions of a superstickie. Let me live another week and I’ll tell you about som advanced stuff too ;)

NB! This is NOT the way I imagine the look of it when finalized. This is just for easy explanation. The color fields will not be seen and it will be all smooth and nice for the eyes. I trust you to see and appreciate the idea behind the mockups :)

Button A
Deletes the superstickie. (It will be possible to bring it back to life from the “Central superstickie manager”, CSM, if needed. More or that in a later post.)

Button B
Hides the superstickie until the computer restarts

Button C
Brings out the drawing tools and a small colormap(very simple stuff). It shall be possible to draw in a seperate field apart from the other content in the superstickie, as well as on pictures and texts.

Button D
Recording. Record a video PM with the help of the computers built in tool or a voice mesage using the computer microfone.

Button E
Flips the superstickie over to show you the superstickie options. Here the superstickie may be named, categoriesed, styled, put on a time schedual and assigned to a group. A button to launch the CSM will be found here.

Button F
This actually isnt a button but an area where to drag your files you want attached to the superstickie if using it as a “file container”.

Grey area
The grey area is where your button F attached files will show up. They will be listed here as aliases (hyperlinks, shortcuts or whatever you call it). The superstickie stretches as more files are tossed in the button F until a set number (default ten-ish or so. Changable from the CSM) when scrolling kicks in.

Green corner
Stretch the superstickie to prefered size. Images and other files visable inside the supersickie will automatically resize to fit.

Orange area
This is where the superstickie is drag around sensitive. Move the superstickie around by pressing here and move it.

Red corner
Same as orange area but with the funcion of gluing the stickie to files if released over a file icon.

Blue main area
klick it to write something or drag a suppoted file here. For example, if you drag a picture here then the picture will show up in the superstickie. Currently supports picture files, videos and CAD’s. more suggestions are welcome :)

All for now. Later

Me a copycat?

2006-09-22T15:59:10Z

Hi people.

I just realized that I might look like an copycat! The reason is this post in the ” Critique My Dream App” forum by Andrew Coyne. His idea are just about excactly the same as mine. Ok, that happens, 2700 ideas then there are bound to be a lot of dupies. However, When changing name to “Superstickies” I belive I had seen someone refer to my “Stick-it” idea as “Superstickies” wich sounded good enough. Well “Superstickies” was in fact Andrew Coynes name for the idea. posted here long before I went for it (and of course the reference was made to Andrews idea, not mine). Therefor Im gonna change name once again. No big deal since people seems to refer to them as Stick-its anyway. So for now its just back to “Stick-its” again.

Introducing

2006-09-16T17:50:33Z

Greetings. Getting closer now. Time for some mockups. :)

The first change I have to do is the name. I’m not a marketeer or some, but is’nt the name “Stick-it” unimaginative and to similar to “Stickies”. To really point out that these babies are waaay sweeter than ordinary stickies I’ve decided to go for the other unimaginative name of “Super-stickies”.

Second thing is added support for video clips. I had originally the idea of including sound support for the superstickies, so I thougt why not add video as well. As built in cameras is now standard I figure it would be stupid not to have this ability.

So, the real sweet thing about this is the possibility to place them wherever. As qoted in my my first thread, “Data right there at my fingertips, right where I am going to use it.” Well spoken sir. I mean, why place a note on the desktop when it is about something nested deep down in your system, or perhaps it is a filter setting in photoshop you need to make a note of. To me that doesnt make sence (Thats why I’m still a heavy user of post-its).

I will post some self explainatory mockups now.Be back later with some revolutionary thoughts later (among that the ability of syncing between machines, jratcliffe.)

Attaching superstickies to a file or folder will create a miniature or small icon. Clicking on the icon will bring it up to normal size.

Plain text one;

Place a photo of your trip to Stonehenge in your superstickie.

Recorded sound file, Nice when sharing projects and so.

Even nicer to add your face synced to the sound;

Later all, and keep posting your toughts, needs and ideas.

/Anders

Wow

2006-09-06T05:08:14Z

So, here I am, ego boosted regarding my creative talents :)

First of all, kudos to the boys running the show. Its always great to see people daring to take things on with a new aproach.

Stumbling upon the MyDreamApp project I of course felt that I had to participate in this great concept. Based on an idea I had a while back, I quickly wrote down a description of my dream app. It looked like this:

“please make me an app that lets me stick small notes all over my computer”

Whoa, I cant really submit that I said to myself. Its only one sentence ffs. So I added some more text, descriptions and some examples, but basically, that one sentence said it all. I clicked on submit and went on with life.

And so, the other day phone rung and some english gibberish meets my swedish “tjena”. As it takes me a while to switch over to english mode, I didnt realize from where he was calling and naturally I supposed it was another “you-have-won-this-great-competition-and-all-you-have-to-do-is-beam-us-$1000-and-we’ll-send-you-this-brand-new-porche.”-scam.

Luckily tho, I didnt hang up on the guy but realized I had actually partly won a real competition. Being picked out among 2700 ideas actually felt quite nice I must admit. Never had I counted on that when entering. As I said, It really gives ones creative ego a boost.

For the finals I’ve describe some features of my dream app “Stick-it” with little more depth than originally. After all its no more 2700 ideas to scan. But yet it is probably not finished. I need all the feedback I can get from you. Anything you consider would be an improvement on the app, dont hesitate, just post it.

As for now,
Tjena