Our site expirienced a huge surge in popularity thanks to discussions about the final season of ABC’s Lost.
Go ahead and make your own circle on Jumpino.com
We are already working on Jumpino 2.0 . Check back often to see the new revisions.
The first week of Jumpino exceeded our expectations – we got alot of positive feedback, a little negative feedback, and lots of daily users. Although a week is much too short of a time to make any wide assumptions about the longevity of the website, me and David have decided we need a new front page video. I will be working on videos most of tommorow.
The reason we need a new video is because of the misconception that Jumpino is a community. Jumpino is actually a group of communities – a circle is for you and your friends, you don’t have to stay in welcome or offtopic and talk to us! You should talk to your friends or family. There’s soo many good uses for Jumpino and things you can do here that you couldn’t even fathom on other websites. I hope the new videos show and explain this.
Anyway, it’s been a good first week. I’m glad we released when we did.
Jumpino works on some smartphones, but has huge limitations. Sometimes live posts (or jumps, as Ariana lovingly calls them) don’t show up, and there are tons of layout issues. We are planning to make an uber-light version of the website for mobile, but for now, you can check your favorite circles on your smartphone. (Left, Samsung Impression Media Phone, Right, Apple iPhone Smartphone.)
If I had a pageview for every time David and I said “Let’s release Jumpino today”, I’d be sipping on a martini on some exotic island. The truth is, it was never supposed to take this long to make. Jumpino was gonna be a quick in and out as far as development, but when you combine me and my brother, a storm erupts. First of all, we disagreed about everything, so we’d make multiple copies of things – three layouts, two website structures, and then sit and think and pick from them. And then a couple months later, we’d get bored of the layout and I’d redo it all over again. Same with the features, the colors, the ultimate question: rounded or not rounded? and more.
In the end I like our finished product – a homely, slightly imperfect website with a simple philosophy at its core. I hope our users appreciate the simplicity as much as we do, and see the value in Jumpino.com.
I have a couple more things to do: fix an image on the new user screen, edit some typos, but the real finishing touch is the users. That’s the one thing I cant control or churn out of code, but I’m ready for opinions, for bugs, for crashes, and all the lovely things that come with users.
Before I end this post I want to thank the friends that made it possible and everyone that popped in every now and then to see how we were doing. Talking with people on Jumpino really gave us the confidence to go all the way and finally finish this thing.
Hello there traveler. Today marks a monumental day for those of us here at Jumpino.com. This is a project that began more than 6 months ago scribbled on a coffee-stained legal pad…
It was May 2009. I had been thinking for several months of a good idea for a new website. I had some free time and I wanted to be productive. To be completely honest, I wanted to create something that would make a significant amount of money. What followed is a series of life-changing events and sleepless nights. My sister and I came up with a very interesting socially-based theory that a new website could be based on. After several weeks of research, number-crunching and logistics, we set out to build something that would shake the internet. The project started out modestly since we both had jobs and time was sparse. My sister was in charge of the artistic-side of things, and I was the head programmer on the project. I had never started such a huge project before, let alone finish it. I had an enormous amount of self-doubt and skepticism. What if people won’t like it? What if A? What if B? In a sense, I truly felt like the iconic soldier in H.G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds”: I talked the talk, but didn’t walk the walk.
In mid-July, the project was starting to shape up. I had written about 4000 lines of code, the website looked decent, but we were barely halfway there. A project that was supposed to last a mere 1-2 months extended into summer, and eventually fall and winter. I had never shown this amount of dedication to anything prior. Working 10 or more hours a day either doing academic research or working on new and innovative techniques was something I completely surprised myself with. Soon, thoughts of whether or not this project I was massively invested in would yield any sort of reward started to creep in.
Now that we’ve finished a project, and a big one at that, I know that I’m a lot more capable than I ever thought I was. I used to think I was very smart and perhaps I was even pretentious. But I realize now, being smart has nothing to do with true success. So my accomplishment is not an award or a gold star or a pat on the back from a teacher – it’s my future and the future of my project, along with all the sweat and blood I poured into it. And if
