It has been an exciting couple of weeks over at Latakoo HQ, what with us closing our $1.3m seed funding round and all.
This week some of the team were demoing the tool at Techcrunch Disrupt, where it went down very well indeed.
I’m off to celebrate, so I’ll leave you to read all about it!
This is just a quick post to introduce a little tool I hacked together to scratch an itch.
Billabl.es is a simple invoice tracking tool I hacked together over a weekend which lets you invoice and track the process of an invoice, send messages and automatically send reminders to clients when an invoice is due (or overdue).
In its current incarnation I’ve opted for simplicity over anything fancy so it only has a basic set of features, and its still very much in beta. But as mentioned in previous posts, if you wait for something to be perfect you’ll never release anything.
Log in via your Twitter or Facebook account, create a client and then start sending them invoices (consisting of the very basic details). You can attach a url or upload a pdf which contains a printable invoice containing your detailed invoice.
Anyway, I find it useful and maybe you will too. Have a play!
For those interested, this site is built using a home grown (and I like to think quite powerful) PHP web services framework which I wrote because nothing currently out there did exactly what I wanted…
Last Wednesday saw the long awaited return of the ever fantastic Oxford Geek Night.
Thanks to all involved, and all who came, and especially the keynote and microslot speakers for making it an awesome night!
The first speaker was a woman called Leila Johnston who gave an interesting talk called “Making things fast”, I suggest you go have a look at the video.
In a nutshell the longer a project goes on the less likely it is to be completed. We should all stop worrying so much about getting things perfect before letting a project see the light of day. There was also the observation that enthusiasm for a project is a finite resource and is spent very quickly.
So anyway, last weekend I bashed together an idea I’ve been pondering since my flight back from Vegas, and prompted by Leila’s talk I’m pushing the first buggy version out into the world at large before I get distracted with something new and shiny.
So, without further ceremony I’d like to introduce “I’m going to miss…”
What?
“I’m going to miss…” is something I cooked up on a transatlantic flight as partially something I’d like to have exist, and partially an excuse to build OAuth support into a platform I’m hacking together.
The basic concept for the first version is, essentially, Single-serving friends reunited (although I obviously can’t call it that). It is an attempt to capture those interesting conversations and chance encounters we have in-between A and B. I’ve got some quite cool ideas for the next iterations as well, which may or may not happen.
It won’t change the world, but it was a quick build (I like them) so have a play! I’ll be interested to see if this is something that’s going to fly…
Right. What’s next?
