The Ups and Downs of Creating a Communal Shopping Network called Zovue

I just started today to write a blog about my frustrations and joys in being part of a team...that i am hoping...will revolutionize the online shopping community.

Our journey begins in June 2007 when the creators of Zovue.com decided to create a cool website in Flash. 

4 months into the project, they realized that their audience was limited to young girls below the age of 17.

This was not good. They needed a larger audience. This is where i came in, along with my programmers and a few fairy god mothers thrown in (hee hee)

My team re-vamped the website...we added some cool features like rating photos, people, motorcycles,cars,fighter jet airplanes (for the testosterone fueled people). We also added a videos page..which is like Youtube...except it only features professionally made content.

In addition....the embedded chat function enables Zovue users to share the Zovue page with their friends. This means...that wherever they go in Zovue, their friends and family will see...what they see.

This is critical for the "communal shopping" because it allows users to look at interactive magazines and post notes for their friends about the products displayed.

Right now, we are trying to get Zovue stabilized...basically bug free. The plan is that it will work on operating systems such as Safari (for MAC), Firefox, Google Chrome and Explorer.

Last week, my team has been moving the storing and uploading files to a separate servers so they do not overload the main processing server.

The other team has been uploading the demo magazines so users can post feedback on this new type of advertising.

Its very stressful though, we have a 30 day deadline, as of today. So the countdown for launch is on my desktop...as a constant reminder of the tasks that still need to be completed.

Hope the rest of you guys don't have as much stress as i do. I am thinking of taking a good vacation after the launch is successful. I wonder where i should go???