I'll look it using this in my dreary day job. You would be suprised how hard it is to keep track of 12 staff that report to you and know what they are actually up to when you are extremly busy yourself. It would add a lot of pressure to their working weeks to commit to what they are doing and have to report against it.
If you could actually guarantee that I would get a really high quality product, that worked, and didn't have lots of bugs (it can have a few tweeks still needed), I can customers people being interested. What you would need is to ensure that the end product is awesome and DOES work. More so what I can see is this as a business idea - where people can come to a company for an amazingly fast turnaround time. Dealing with web design and development firms is a disaster from my experience. Even the level of customer care they provide when you approach with a potential $20,000 is terrible.
Hahaha I know and I do but a lot of the time it takes 3 to 5 calls before someone answers and even then it's not a guarantee that they're free. I figured this could be a nice little short cut if it was out there. It seems like not too many others have a problem with this though so it might just be a specific problem for my area. My high school class only had about 110 kids.
ditto. internet is making us lazy when it comes to taking initiative. i feel it might be an ego thing - noone wants to be told "No, I'm busy, and don't got time for you"
So you don't have to put up with bureacratic bullshit that goes on in all companies or government departments. Once you have worked in organisations for long enough, you learn that often the people in management above you are often quite incompetent. Their ability to make decisions is hamstrung by the person above them, and those above them. Control freaks are everywhere, and drag down the independence of staff. Having your own start-up or working for one means you are either in control of the decision making, or very close to those that are, and you aren't stuck in committees and meetings to make even the smallest decisions. Freedom from these work practices is enough motivation for anyone. I make pretty good money now, I would like to make more through my start-up, but if my start-up made me the same I would be 5 times happier than in my current work environment.
Definitely not. Check out the values of Bebo and MySpace and how much they are worth now. News Corp is trying to sell MySpace for $150million when they paid $500million for it a few years back. Don't bet that the same thing won't happen to Facebook.
Great tool I say!