Fame is Free!

We’ve made a few more tweaks to the site and we’re happy to announce that Fame is now Free. Free Famers will be put at the bottom of the page, but they will still have the opportunity to get themselves out of the Enquirer and up to A-Listers in People. Serious celebrities need not worry, these new celebs won’t encroach on your space unless they pay their way past you!

It’s exciting to offer so many people the opportunity for fame and we can’t wait to see the results. As always let us know if you have any suggestions or requests and we will try to meet your needs.

We still have some tricks up our sleeves!

Tick Tock

Well it’s probably time that we admit that this is taking a little bit longer than expected. We’re really happy with how things are going and we’re incredibly close to be doing done, but we don’t want to put the site up too early and not have it function as it should.

I know that you’re all hungry to learn a little bit more about what FameThrower really is… and to put it simply, it is a web site filled with famous people where anyone will have the opportunity to project themselves to fame.

Here is one of the screens that’s almost done:

You can probably make out the numbers, that’s pretty much all I can make out too. Not to worry, it won’t be too long now. But then again I’m standing on the other side of the room.

Enjoy!

Slight Delays in a Good Way

We’re happy to report that progress is going better than expected, sadly this means that we may not be able to launch tomorrow morning. We are upgrading our servers to be prepared for more traffic and we’re working with lawyers to iron out some of our terms and conditions, because we don’t want to get sued!

This means that we won’t know when we are going to launch until right before it happens so make sure to stay tuned in to our progress. It will be this week, but it could literally anytime. On the up side, we’ll be launching with more features to enhance your FameThrower experience than we would had if we were to open to the public tomorrow morning. So bring out your dancing shoes and get ready for a good time.
It looks like we’ve decided which charity we’re going to give to but we’ll probably hold onto that tid bit of information until we go live!

Pay close attention, as we will be updating with more infomation soon!

Which Charity should we give to?

We know that you’re all still waiting to hear exactly what FameThrower is going to be, so I’m going to tell you… It is going to be… well actually we should probably get your advice on which charity we should give to and then we’ll tell you what FameThrower is all about.

We want to give to a charity that we believe in, which will use our donations efficiently and effectively. This goal led me to charity watch, one of the premiere resources that objectively ranks charities. We trolled through their database, compared it with some of our own ideas, and came up with this list to work with.

In no particular order:
Children’s Hunger Fund – They focuses on getting food to the children who need it most in America and the world.

Americans for the Arts – Their goal is to give every American the opportunity to participate in and appreciate the arts.

Sunshine Foundation – They concentrate on giving terminally ill children one last wish, which their families would not be able to afford on their own.

Pro Literacy Worldwide – They work all over the world to teach illiterate adults and families how to read.
Doctors Without Borders – This international humanitarian group provides emergency aid to people affected by natural disasters or wars or who don’t have access to health care.

I don’t know when we are going to decide which charity to give half our profits to, but I can tell you that it’s going to be soon. If you have any other suggestions now is the time!

Monday Morning L(a)unch?

So we’ve decided to use paypal as opposed to google checkout. We realized that more people probably already have paypal accounts, so it would be easier for the majority of site visitors to propel themselves to Fame! Things are moving along at a breakneck pace so I’m now going to make the call that we will have the site up and functional by Monday morning! I can’t tell you what time zone we’re operating in so stop asking!

Also, someone emailed us today asking what our ‘lunch’ plans are going to be for Monday. We’ll probably be grilling some burgers, but I should mention that we may not be ‘eating’ ‘lunch’ until around 4 or 5pm depending on how Sunday night goes.

We’re almost out of coffee!

Just kidding, we just pulled some strings and we’re getting a few skids of Colombia’s finest tomorrow, assuming this weather holds up. Testing has started on some portions of the site and so far we’re pretty happy with how things are moving along. Once the whole framework is in place and secure we’ll start ramping up on some of the design ideas that we’ve had. Think subtle Web 2.0 to the extreme, with a dash of old-school flare. It’s going to look something like this only with more of a kick to it.
We still need more suggestions for which charity we should give half of our profits to! If you have any send them to us at helpus@famethrower.com or post them in the comments. In any case, we plan on deciding by Saturday night, so we’ll probably put up a list of our current considerations tomorrow.

Smooth Sailing

Development is going faster today that it did yesterday. We now have all the features worked out and we’re just checking off the list as we go. We’ve also decided to use Google Checkout to keep payments as secure and reliable as possible. Now we can be certain that anyone can make a purchase with ease and confidence.

In other news, we still haven’t picked a charity but we’re getting closer. Ideally we’re looking for one where FameThrower can make an impressive impact. Maybe in the future we’ll let you pick which charity you’d like to give to, but for now, it will be easier to stick to one.

Gotta love it!

Splash Page Ready.

Alright.  It’s been 24 hours since we came up with this genius idea.  Here’s a quick recap of what we’ve gotten done:  logo, design, hosting, email, basic project in subversion repository, numerous brainstorming sessions, convincing a friend in California to cancel all his plans this weekend, and putting up a quick splash page.

Here’s what we need to get done: a ton of development, deciding what charity to give to (suggestions welcome!), and some sort of promotion (help welcome here too).

Here’s to gettin’ it done.  Email us letters of encouragement and we’ll love you forever.

Giving Back, Moving Forward

We know that our company is a little bit silly so we figured that we should probably put it to good use. After some careful thought we’ve decided that we are going to donate 50% of all of our profits to a charity.

We haven’t yet decided which charity we should give to, although we are adding that decision to the top of the “big board”. If you have any suggestions let us know!

That reminds me, if you have any questions or comments in general feel free to contact us and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.