My Dream App

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

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.

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

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

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.