Pick.im

Watching @larkinbc and @boulderrescue doing ice rescue training. Have a strange urge to run out and jump in.

What a morning fog.

Had never the Mellon + prosciutto tonight (first time). Quite good.

Choose for yourself

It's a good day in a writer's life when they create something that they believe will be relevant, lasting, and powerful.

Now, I know this isn't the Declaration of Independence or anything, but I don't mind saying I'm pretty proud of myself.

Pick.im: Choose for yourself.

If you're a freelancer, it means "do it!" be self-employed, choose a lifestyle that is more personal, exciting, rewarding and risky.

If you're a client, it means that we have the freelancers, you can come and find what you need here.

I think it works.

On poultry

What's good for the client is good for the freelancer.

This is true, and a really good way of thinking about the business model of Pick.

But we could look at it the other way, too:  What's good for the freelancer is also good for the client.

Which is more important to our growth as a service?

I think that's the interesting challenge we face: Who came first, the freelancer or the client?

Real, meaningful, and attainable

Working on site content and some other relevant writing projects
tonight, and I had a realization that I think is really awesome.

The mission of Pick.im is already established--it is real, meaningful
and attainable.

The business plan is still in the works--it, too, is real, meaningful
and attainable.

Around here, it's the mission statement that justifies the business
plan, not the other way around.

Yay.

Live Demo

This weekend Scott Andreas whipped up a prototype of pick.

Setting Up Services

Signed up for ChedderGetter out of SproutBox (love that)

Design V1 R1

Mockups to go along with the http://open.pick.im/v1-wireframes

Just Right

Sometimes, the right person with the right idea shows up at the right time.

Now, I get to argue about feature development and marketing copy with
Andrew, which is really quite a privilege.

So happy to be here.

Watch this space for lists of future features and my adventures with
writing specs using cucumber.