Tuesday, February 01, 2005

tickr.com

I'm now the proud owner of a five letter domain: Tickr.com (-:

I'm planning on using it to implement a simple webapp for todo lists. I got the idea from BaseCamp, but their todo lists lack some features I need. It's essentially a pet project on the design of a webapp with rich interface, and a REST API. The idea here is to document the design, and more than that, the development speedbumps. I'd like to document the real world problems of serving a web application under these requisites:
  • Browser support for these and later versions: IE6 (win32), Firefox 1.0, Konqueror 3.3, Opera 7.54.
  • XHTML markup, served under application/xhtml+xml MIME type for valid browsers (all but IE which'll get text/html).
  • Javascript interaction where possible, "a la" gmail, without stepping over bookmarkability.
  • REST API
I figure to-do lists are a simple enough problem that I can get the interface planned out thoroughly before writing the first line of code. On the other hand, I think there's margin for improvement over existing offers, so it won't be draft and scrap code.

As a first step, I ordered Getting Things Done. This looks like a pet project already (it's costing me money without a revenue plan :-)

The book is expected to arrive on the 15th, so until then the idea is simmering. I'm open to ideas, feature requests, architecture designs, world domination plans, get-rich-fast schemes or cure-world-hunger-and-cancer-too solutions. Just comment below.
Posted by K at 15:17:23 | Permanent Link | Comments (3) |
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1 - Do you know this one - http://www.tadalist.com/ ?
Its a stripped down version from the BaseCamp team.

Also see this as a nice example of a usable webapp: http://www.43things.com/

I\‘ve been looking for a similar tool, something like a WebPIM. Are you accepting volunteers ? :) (Comment this)

Written by: Sérgio Nunes at 2005/02/01 - 17:17:27
2 - whoops I meant to type in Flickr
:) (Comment this)

Written by: shab at 2005/03/30 - 19:11:46
3 - I cant imagine u let this domain expire. I participated in the auction..but didnt win it..sold for around 600 bucks. (Comment this)

Written by: sasa at 2008/04/17 - 23:40:28
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