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I wish I worked like this…

Shoemoney has just announced the Shoemoney Media Group’s latest website. It’s called Bellow A Buck.

Below A Buck uses eBay’s API to show auctions that are ending in less than an hour with a price that is less than $1. The site categorizes everything nicely and has a search feature for your convenience.

Does the site sound familiar? It did to me too. On August 10th John Chow wrote a review about a site called LastMinuteAuction (www.lastminute-auction.com). Below A Buck is pretty much a copy of that site. If you try to go to the site, you’ll notice it is down now, so I wouldn’t be surprised if Shoemoney never read John Chow’s review and honestly came up with the idea on his own.

But that’s besides the point.

Over at Dave “Dillsmack” Dellanave’s blog, Dillsmack goes through their process of building the site. It is pretty unreal how fast he and Shoemoney got this website ready to go. He worked for 40 minutes on the first day and 30 minutes the second. Then it was sent off to a designing company for a couple weeks. When the design was finished, It took Dillsmack about 90 minutes to finish integrating the code into the design. That was 2 hours and 40 minutes of total work minus the designing.

How crazy is that? I always say to myself, “I just don’t have time for new things.” I guess the lesson learned here is to work fast

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2 Responses to “I wish I worked like this…”

  1. Jason Burns says:
    October 17, 2007 at 5:57 pm

    The interesting thing though, is you can have the best idea, the fastest dev skills, if you don’t have a machine to promote it, you are toast. That’s where Shoemoney has the advantage. He can get a site out and get the word out fast. Building traffic is the fight I am in every day for both my blog http://www.philoking.com and my new venture http://www.takemytech.com (thanks for the comment on the site btw, that is how I found you.

    JB

  2. Jason Pedersen says:
    October 18, 2007 at 10:41 am

    You are right Jason (nice name by the way). Getting traffic is definitely the hardest part of getting a site going. In fact, that is one of the reasons I have a blog at all. I feel like if I could get a large number of RSS feed readers, than I could use this blog as a great marketing tool (As Shoemoney just did with BelowABuck.com).

    Thanks for the comment.

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