Formally announcing Bunchd
29 October 2010
Today, one of the first bits of press was released that has covered my upcoming project called Bunchd. Usually I am pretty quiet about this project because of its enormous potential but I decided this unique event had potential to be big. I was contacted three weeks ago by a K-State Collegian (I refuse to link to them because they fucked me on a previous occasion) named Tiffany Roney. I called her back and she asked me like 5 questions at once and I answered by going through the history of Bunchd which I think turned out okay in the article. When I told one of professors how the interview “went down” he grimaced as if he expected the worst, which is far from what happened in my limited expertise.
You can find the article here.
I honestly look at Bunchd as my baby. I am more protective of it than I would be my own child but it needs some press and it is almost ready for people to get their hands on it. Probably ready for alpha testing by the end of the year.
By the way, we are looking at potential Angels!
Bunchd is in a manner of words is a communications aggregator. This is what I would call it at its most basic level. Once you have access to almost all of someones’ communications channels you can provide so much value to the user it unbelievable. However the level of sensitivity we take very seriously, we view it at about the same level that Mint.com views their security at, and that is pretty high. We have looked at locking down peoples data once they give us access to it, but that presents a problem. If we were to get access to peoples data, encrypt it with a public key so that they were the only ones that could decrypt it, it makes us unable to build a lot of key features: search, content prioritization, and to build relationships between different types of communications.
We have yet to release a product because of a number of reasons. The ones that you should know about are the following:
We built the entire http://myribit.com website and provide a lot of the vision behind the site, this has taken more time than was originally estimated and has been real learning experience.
We have real jobs, real jobs that require us to work 80 hours a week during the summer, real jobs that require us to not write PHP and Javascript code every waking second. Believe me if I could change this I would.
We built The Fourum and a lot of K-State students are truly thankful for this. Some of our spare time goes into improving this site and making changes.
We change our minds a lot. This has not been an issue in awhile because we have decided the features in our first release (version .4), and we are sticking to them, and have to have them done by mid-December or I fail a class.
That is all I can think to write about Bunchd at this waking second, it is awesome, it is the future.