Making your mark
So not to long ago (a few months back) i created a web application that would allow me to track my fuel usage. While the application was pretty much public i never really announced it or blogged about it either. The reason for this was that while it worked fine , the application lacked polish and i had not implemented all the feature’s that i had intended to implement .
So a funny thing happened yesterday, while browsing through my list of rss feeds i came across a feed on Web Worker Daily about an application that basically did the same thing as mine but with a lot less functionality .The difference was that they had a lot more polish for the product (fuelfrog) with all the nice colors and stuff attached .Thinking back if had polished the app a bit more who knows it might have got a bit more limelight (provided i could come up with a better name than fuletracker).
So does it come down to who releases there product first or is it more about who has the best looking product. I know this is a 2 sided coin because a lot of the general public like i pretty product that is less functional more than a ugly more functional product.
So to all those that did not know i have a released a semi beta/alpha fuel tracking application that will allow you to track the mileage and a bunch of other stuff , so there i said it.
Now lets just hope my other ideas don’t get taken by other people.
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Just remember one thing. When you have an idea for an application, there are at least 10 other people with the same idea. Get your product out there, then polish it.
Can anyone use it yet?
Depends what you want , the fuel tracker is there for use , but its mostly for mobile use not the web.I can give u access if u want
Just wondering if anyone can just use it? and if there is something like logins?
Yes there is a login system , which is why need to give access to a person personally as there is no public registration page yet