Author Archives: Katja
*** “it” is basically the work of true pioneers, “it” is building a framework that allows us to provide any given text in an high standard epub format on any given device no matter whether you are on- or offline.
Why “release early, iterate often, and fail fast” simply doesn’t apply to PaperC.com
With PaperC.com, an eReading platform that provides thousands of textbooks and multiple options of mobile use, we’re in closed beta for almost a year now. No big deal, it’s a huge project and there’s only two developers on it.*** Still recently we got way behind schedule what did make not only us but our partners in publishing, our investors and the guys who support us with their feedback for month now in the closed beta, bite their nails. Yes, it sucks, planning a release version for mid October, than rescheduling it to the end of it and finally facing, that the end of the year has come while you still try to keep everyone happy but they started to doubt you’re capable of releasing anything good at all. Delay is considered fail, because you
- are not as quick as “the guys who spit out Gidsy“
- have mismeasured your recourses and the complexity of the subject
- are considered not hard working enough, because if you’d only.. you know.
- obviously have not realized that there are others in the market overtaking you with their freshly launched product
In 2013 “Internet Addiction” will receive the Status of a Mental Disorder in the US
While in Germany 560.000 people*, mainly jobless men, are suspectedly suffering from the addiction to gaming, communicating, consuming videos or buying on the internet, a valid classification of the so called online-related addictions is still under review. In the US a call to action has just taken place, propelling the alarming issue right onto the medical board. Internet Addiction is a serious enough disorder to ask: what are the approaches on the psychology behind it?
Coming To an End // Getting Started
Hey guys’n'gals in the closed beta of PaperC.com,
you have not heard from us in a while which is mainly because of the not too interesting developments of the past weeks – at least not visibly interesting and not easy to spot. To cut it really short: “A refactoring on that level is a nightmare“ and you most likely all know what that means. He does. Everything you did not see or hear from us within the last weeks was spent on building a web app, that can compete with any native app: fancy, speedy, efficient, still working on any device with a decent operating system/browser. By now it seems to be done, our web app in the first iteration.
She is as beautiful as a lady can be but as ladies tend to: she took her time.
Sprints [1] to [5] On Our Feature Plan
Thanks to you all we get a lot of feedback, daily feedback that sums up to a major part of our every days work. To have this more comfy for us and for you, CTO Moritz and I have tried to put our next steps of developing into 8 sprints of which I’v shortened the first 5 for you below. The goal is to get you a brief overview and, even better, to have all those features reported in our user voice forum for you to easily add points to the things you find important. This way we have all our priorities for you to be known and your feedback crisp and clean in one place without to many redundancies. Here we go:
