Jason Champion

Over the past few weeks I’ve gotten rid of a handful of domains that either tested as “not worth building”, or that just weren’t something I wanted to work on.

I just put the last domain from this round up on eBay.  Unlike some others that weren’t keepers, this one is a keeper that someone could build a pretty successful and profitable site with if they knew what they were doing.

It’s winapp.net and the eBay auction is here.  Feel free to bid if you think you’re the right person to build it (or if you’re a domain investor and think you can make a good return).

My task and to-do list management website, Got-It-Done.com, came out of beta today.  It also became 100% free.  Initially I had planned to have both free and paid versions, but it’s the sort of thing that should probably just be free.  So, instead of limiting non-premium accounts to 2 lists of 25 items each, anyone can create any number of lists with any number of items now.

I created the site because I needed a way to keep track of my “todo list” and made it multi-user in case other people would find it useful.  It seems that a solid handful of people do, but it’s not really much of a commercial venture considering the proliferation of task management websites out there. Still, it’s the one *I* fine most useful of all, so others might too.

If you’ve got stuff to do, but it’s too much to keep track of easily, sign up on Got-It-Done.com.  It may just make your life easier.

Of course, the option is still out there to generate a little revenue by creating mobile-phone-based adaptations of the site.  That may just have to happen when Sprint finally releases their first Android phone next month.

For the past couple months I’ve been working on a new website, I-Collect-It.com, which will be a reference and community for collectors of various collectibles, such as stamps, sports cards, coins, bank notes, stock certificates, and other ephemera.

Unlike most of my other sites, which have been just a few static pages or a Drupal install with some modifications, I-Collect-It is a custom-coded site written from “scratch” using the Django web framework. I learned a lot about Django while building Got-It-Done.com. I didn’t learn all there was to know, but I gained a foundation solid enough to start building something on a much larger scale.

So far, there are more than 2000 images totaling about 1.9 gigabytes. Ultimately the site may grow to 100 times that, or more, so it’s important to have a solid design for the database and filesystem. I spent a lot of time sketching out how I wanted data management to work for the site, and I feel like I have something pretty solid and scalable to work from.

Since there is a massive amount of data that needs to be added and a pretty sizeable codebase that needs to be written, it will be a long process to get the site fully built and launched, but for now one can at least browse some of the items that will be shown on the site.

There’s not much CSS or layout yet since I’ve been so focused on the data portion of the site (in other words, it ain’t pretty), but it should give you an idea of what I’ve been working on.