Yesterday at OSCON, Andrew Hyde and Gaving Doughtie gave a presention on launching a startup in three hours. The presentation was based in large part on Startup Weekend, a company that helps startups get off the ground in 54 hours.
They gave a great macro-level description of the processes involved in starting a startup, as well as some micro-level advice on how to deal with specific problems that are likely to creep up. If you’re interested in or involved with a startup, I strongly encourage you to grab the slides from Andrew’s blog.
During the presentation, Andrew pitched an idea for a Wordpress plugin called SiteFan. We began working on it during the workshop portion of the session. The premise is this: trackbacks are a great way to see who’s linking to your posts, but what about people who are linking to your site? Wouldn’t it be cool to have a trackback-like system for general links, so you could see what people are saying about you (as opposed to seeing what people are saying about your posts)? I plan to finish the plugin and publish it. If anybody’s interested in working on it or taking ownership of it, or if you were in our group during the seminar and have any of the design notes, please drop me a line at robby at freerobby dot com.
