How to build a house on the moon without the use of pulleys or cranes

david@myquire.com (David) — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:31:00 -0500

Hello! I'm psyched to kick-start the first posting on the MyQuire blog. After weeks of banging on our computers and burning the midnight oil we have some stuff we want to show you. We're still midway through our development process and many of the core technologies aren't available yet (coming this fall…). That said, we're happy to share with you some of our early prototypes and ideas.

Before I get ahead of myself let me introduce you to the basic idea behind MyQuire. The concept is deceptively simple:

we want to provide a software-as-a-service (read: web-based software) that doesn't look and feel like the hard-to-use desktop software we've been subjected to for years.

We figure, why spend so much time making software for the internet that tries to look and feel like software on a desktop? Well, the internet is not the desktop, we might as well build a house on the moon with pulleys and cranes! At MyQuire, our hunch is that by wrapping up our core technologies in an interface that's more fun and people-centric, we provide a path for people who aren't "good" with technology to use collaboration tools that respond to real pains. The first real pain on our list we're trying to alleviate? Make running a team and a project less of an ordeal…

I'll keep this short and sweet for now. In the future we're going to use the MyQuire blog as a forum to continue our conversation with you, our user. Since our product is literally in mid-development (I don't even think we can call this a "Beta" or "Alpha", that should come in the fall), your comments and ideas will have a direct impact on our first product launch. So let us know! Of course, there's also a bit of a selfish side to this blog – it's a place where we will share with you some of the humble thoughts, ideas and aspirations that led us to the MyQuire project, along with the challenges we face as we move forward.

So, thanks in advance for your help and for getting involved with your feedback!

David Steinberg

CEO

Quire Blog: Category Development

How to build a house on the moon without the use of pulleys or cranes