This weekend, the Orange Sparkle Ball team decided to participate in the Rails Rumble, a contest for folks like us to prove their mettle at designing and deploying top-notch web applications - the catch is that you have only 48 hours to go from start to finish. You’re allowed to do planning ahead of time, of course, but no actual code or image design was allowed except in the designated 48 hour time slot.
The idea
We settled on our choice of app to build only 24 hours before the official start of the contest, giving us only a bit of time to plan ahead before diving in. Our choice? A to-do list and time-tracker that is simple and that we can get everyone on our team to use. Finding a solution to this problem has proven quite challenging, because at the end of the day - some of us (okay, me in particular) never remember to use them. I often find I can’t be bothered to keep track of how long I spent doing something when I could be spending that time doing it.
But being organized is good and helps keep Bonni from stressing out too much, so we needed the perfect system for our needs - one that’s both easy and, this is the important part, FUN. By making a mundane task fun, we hope to change it from a boring chore to an exciting contest. No, we’re not the first to think of something like this, but we feel like we’re the first to take the idea and apply it a corporate, rather than personal level. Why can’t work be fun?
Stay tuned for my next post, where I discuss the process we went through to build an app in 48 hours.
