People’s Software Company

So, where’s PSCO? Right now we’re working on three things: adding more features to the FB version of WhozAround? so we can move it from alpha to beta; scoping out what the work on doing a get out the vote application based on some of the WhozAround? principals would take, and figuring out viral distribution strategies and articulating value propositions so when we go to beta we have not just a nice to have, but a really useful tool–and we can articulate it to people that way.

It is hard work. And it takes longer than I want it to. And I am not that patient. (Yes, it’s frustrating.)

Back when we started talking about the problems we wanted to solve (that woulf be May 08), we had some ideas about groups and local and community that we backed away from, thinking they’d put us too directly into competition with areas of Yahoo and Google. Now, in September 08, I look back at that and laugh–I think we have come up with a good problem set to solve, and a good solution, but executing on our ideas is way more difficult that doing that first set of things would have been.

In some ways, I feel like I picked something  to build that I wish I could program myself–but I can’t–in other ways, I feel like this fall is an exercise in patience–we will get there, and we’ll see where the next set of releases will take us, but it’s slower than I would like, and that’s just how it is.

Meanwhile, we have some very cool stuff we are working on….and I just can’t wait to release it (that frustration thing again.)