1DayLater - The Blog

100 users in London, 100 up North

Tis time to celebrate - the 100th user signed up to the system today! Our beer-based motivation system (we’ll blog about that in the future) says that we must have a pint together to celebrate, happy days.

The real reason we’re writing is to talk about The Big Smoke - London. Last week we took an extended weekend to visit Kingpin Intelligence to talk about the marketing campaign that they’re generously giving to us. The main goal of the campaign is to get another 100 users signed up, and to get feedback from 50 of them a couple of weeks later- leaving us with a comfortable amount of testers and information to launch the full service. The Kingpin guys (James, Darius and Darren) are clearly a talented group and we feel incredibly lucky to have won this great prize with the Teesside’s Business School.

visiting the financial district - can you imagine being rich?

Sad as it may seem, but this visit was our 2nd ever trip to London, and as a city we’ve both got mixed feelings, it’s both vibrant and despairing.

it’s hard to believe that in the many thousands of faces I saw, there was only 1 girl with pink hair…
David King

laughter on the tube must seem like an alien landing, we got stared at a lot - bless them :)
Paul King

And they really do love a good stare, especially if there’s any smiling going on or unusual hair (like Davids) - we bore the brunt of many a steely gaze as we laughed and joked our way about the place. I guess the glumness comes with living in such a big city, but wow does it make me glad to live in Newcastle and remind me why I’m a North East Ambassador

Take it easy, and don’t forget to smile

Paul

An update on development…”the timer”

You may have noticed we’ve been a bit quiet on the official site updates of late! A thousand apologies! Well I’m happy to report that things are coming along nicely, with the developers beavering away in a zen-beaverlike frenzy.

Not ones to disappoint our fans, we decided it was about time we showed some of our new features off. Today I’m going to show you our new-fangled timer. Next week we’ll work our way down the page to show you other features we’ve added.

So (cue fanfare) the timer!

Having a timer is super useful, especially if you work at a computer like I mostly do. With a little “click” you can set it away while you’re doing a task and then forget about it. We’ve tried to make ours as unobtrusive and functional as possible.

After 1 minute…

After 3 minutes…

Once you’ve finished the task, clicking the stop button will neatly populate the time field for you :) Nice!

Those people who were familiar with the original prototype version will notice that our interface layout and wordage have changed somewhat. Why, you ask? Well this is mostly due to the addition of mileage and money into the system whereas originally 1DayLater could only understand notations for time.

I’ll be talking more about this in more detail in my next update!

Peace guys

Paul

We’re incorporated!

Ooooh it’s an exciting day!

After meeting with our Business Link advisor, Stephen Langdown, to talk about grant changes when going from pre-startup to an incorporated company we decided that now’s the time to “get Limited”.

At 11 o’ clock last night, armed with a cup of Yorkshire Gold (mmmm nice) and a pile of pea pods, I managed to get through the forms. As scary as it might seem, the process itself is really straightforward, well with a little help from Antony Hall our solicitor over at Mincoff Jacksons!

Me and David - Directors baby!

So today we write to you as Paul and David King, Directors of 1DayLater Ltd! I’m so excited and proud of our achievements so far that I could burst - I know I’ll be telling everyone I meet!!

And the voice of 1DayLater is….

We have tabulated the votes for the new 1DayLater voiceover in the comments, on the various forums, twitter and via email. It was very close between Dan Hurst and Peter McGowan (straight) - after playing both to a few strangers it was decided that Dan Hurst was the best fit for the job!

Without further ado, feast your eyes and ears on the new 1DayLater intro animation!

It needs a little more work to get it tickety-boo (especially toward the end) but my word, it’s looking fantastic, me and Paul are indebted to you all for helping create and decide the on the voice of 1DayLater.

To think, all this without mentioning X-Factor once. Oh fu…