{"id":687,"date":"2015-02-09T06:21:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T11:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cindypotvin.com\/?p=687"},"modified":"2015-02-09T18:58:34","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T23:58:34","slug":"my-software-side-project-an-event-scheduler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindypotvin.com\/my-software-side-project-an-event-scheduler\/","title":{"rendered":"My software side project : an event scheduler"},"content":{"rendered":"
Last week, I spoke about starting my new side project<\/a> and why I wanted to do it. But now, it’s time to define what I’ll be doing so you can follow along. I’ve toyed with many concepts over the last year, but most of them were pretty bad or would have taken too long to make. But one idea that would always stand out is making an event scheduler for conferences. The seed for this idea was planted by an heartfelt post on Amy Hoy’s blog about how most software to schedule events sucks which you can find at https:\/\/unicornfree.com\/2014\/fuck-innovation-take-2-the-obvious-fucking-fuck-fuckers<\/a>. I’ll be shamelessly grabbing a few ideas from that post with the higher aim of making a good piece of software. <\/p>\n I’m still a bit unsure about making a product for which I’m not in the target market. On the other hand, managing schedules is a problem domain I know very well so I’m not straying too far from things I know. I’m hopeful I’ll be able to do something interesting and this idea can stay small enough as to be doable for a side project. I also took a quick look at my competitors: most of the products that include event scheduling seems to be huge integrated solutions that manages everything for the speaker lineup to the ticketing. I want to do only scheduling and do it well for smaller events, a market I feel is under-served right now. <\/p>\n