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!

Super Secret

Our Super Secret algorithm is almost done and it may blow your socks off (ours are long gone). Once our algorithm is complete it will allow us to put the finishing touches on the rest of the site, and what’s more important than that? Then we’ll cut the ribbon and christen this baby. If you’d like to make a donation of some bubbly, feel free… we’ll put it to good use!

Why take the stairs when you can ride the elevator?

 

 

 

a graphical representation of the FameThrower process

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.

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.

Riding the Lightning

We continue to plug along. Our domain, famethrower.com, is now forwarding to our hosting! Hopefully at some point tomorrow we’ll put a little splash page up to tide everyone over until the real thing comes out this weekend.

We finished the basic design layout and development is underway but it appears that we’ve found our way into a lightning storm (or rather its found us), so we’re currently experiencing some brown-outs. Assuming the power stays on I think we can make some major strides in the next couple of hours.

That’s two items off the board!

Huge Idea

20 Minutes ago I was talking with a friend and we came up with the idea for a company. We’ve decided to try and see how fast we can get it up and going. We’re hoping its only going to take 4 days before the site is up and people start throwing fame around.

It’s time to live the American Dream and see if we can turn this idea into reality.

We are going to:

- design the site

- design a logo

- develop the code

- promote the idea

- have a ton of fun

Wish us luck!