February 2010
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The Cost of 1DayLater
1DayLater currently stores over 22,000 entries tracking 26,000 hours, 72,000 business miles and over £3,000,000 of receipts and expenses. The cost? A £20,000 bank loan, 1,700 dedicated man hours creating 30 iterations of 100-200 files resulting in around 5,000,000,000 database queries, 2,000 users and hit spikes of around 5,000. But lets not forget the 85(+1) blog posts, 2,000 Tweets, 120 hours of...
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Bonding with Bond Solutions
I have 8 ambitions for this year. 4 are related to 1DayLater, 2 lifestyle, and 2 personal/professional development. I pin the list to the wall behind my desk helping me instill each point into my day-to-day efforts as I repeatedly mull them over.
Here’s a little peek at the first 4:
Get world wide recognition for 1DayLater
Become market leader for activity tracking software.
Integrate...
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Exciting New Tender For Programmers
If you’re a local (North East based) programmer who would like to work on an exciting new project we might have something just for you!
Local quango (quasi-autonomous non governmental organisation) and centre for Digital excellence - Codeworks are pioneering a new timesheet system for their employees. The new system will bring data from Outlook into 1DayLater which will then be used to...
Rocket Ronnie Redesigns...
You’ve probably noticed that Paul has been running the blog on his own for the past few weeks, this is because I’ve been knee deep in a big rejiggle of the 1DayLater service. Now, the goal of 1DayLater is to turn a typically mundane task (keeping track of your business activities) into something enjoyable and rewarding we must do two things:
Make it easy to use - check!
Make it as...
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2600 hits and 915 new users - in 1 day
Words cannot describe what has happened here at 1DayLater yesterday. Here’s a clue..
But first,
This is what happened the day before
woke up
Had my cereal (Weetabix)
Made cuppa (Yorkshire tea)
Went to office
Discovered this nice little article on Webworkerweekly
Checked the site stats
I THOUGHT- “Oh 60 signups this morning - cool”
I SAID - “Here David,...
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Surround yourself with skilled people
Some advice I was given recently was “Don’t do it all yourself”, a great piece of advice I think every business owner should take to heart. Which is why when it comes to dealing with law or accounts it’s wise to enlist the help of a pro.
As brothers, David and I are generally very trusting with a shared optimistic outlook on life and people. We find life is just nicer that...