August 2010
5 posts
Freshness: View Grade, Edit Tags, and more
Hello, everyone,
It has been a week since our fantastic launch. We are growing relatively quickly, more and more quizzes are coming up every day, and more and more people are signing up every hour. So thanks for your participation!
Without further ado, here are a list of updates I just pushed live in our server:
The ability to view grade. You now can be able to see a list of grade from the...
Just a Little More: Like & Tweet Button
Before going to the details of this minor update, I want to thank everyone who put in tremendous effort on participating in our awesome social quizzing community over the past 3 days, our site is growing pretty rapidly!
If you haven’t heard, Twitter rolled out a fresh, official tweet button yesterday that make all enthusiast Twitter-er sharing links on the wild much easier (I personally...
OneExtraLap is officially launching!
Over the past 8 months, OneExtraLap has gone from a tiny sprinkle idea in my brain, to an addictive, high-quality beta community with hundreds of beta testers from around the globe. After rewritten the codebase twice, gone over a user interface redesign, today, I am officially launching the site to public, and give you the ability to access this everybody-loved community that offers great quizzes...
The Preview Program is now live!
Hello, all,
Now with 48 hours before the official launch, I am kicking off the preview program to those who enthusiastically signed up on the past 5 days. I am quite surprised by the amount of people who registered, and I am quite honored to have tech industry leaders such as Mark Hendrickson and Hiten Shah signing up and want to give OneExtraLap a try.
The past week has been the busiest week in...
OneMoreWeek, OneExtraLap
Hello, everyone! This amazing moment is finally coming! Under my hard and solid work this summer, OneExtraLap will be officially launching to public on August 8th, which is one week from today.
First and foremost, I want to give my sincere thank you to our super responsible early adopters who helped me test the beta version of the site (since OneExtraLap was a single-feature web app that had...
July 2010
3 posts
Teaser, Part 3
This is the leaderboard showcasing people who earns the most points.
Teaser, Part 2
This is from the user profile page with an intuitive ribbon.
Beautiful enough? :)
Teaser, Part 1
This is a main part in OneExtraLap: Quizzes!
June 2010
2 posts
What's Next?
Howdy, everyone, Stephen is here.
Summer is coming for me, and it’s time to reveal to everyone what is happening. I will be in China (yeah, China) for 5.5 weeks starting June 19th, it’s a journey for me to explore, relax and refuel (learn more in my blog post). I’ve been putting most of my time into OneExtraLap this year, I am really proud of what I’ve accomplished so far,...
Switching Web Host - Don't Sweat
Hello, awesome people,
Just a quick note that I will be switching web host to Media Temple in the upcoming 2 days. So if you see our site is down or showing up stupid stuff, don’t freak out, it’s not the end of the world. :)
Also I will have a detailed blog post about what is coming up with OneExtraLap! Stay tuned!
Update: The transition is now finished! Yay! But unfortunately, I...
May 2010
4 posts
Listening To Users
One of my main philosophy when it comes to web development is always listening to what users want, no matter if they like you or hate you. Doing what they wanted is the ultimate way to satisfy users. And as a result, when users are happy with what you’ve done, everything good will just come to your site naturally.
In this post, I am opening up to our current beta users to share whatever you...
Dissecting The Coming Soon Page
Yesterday after releasing the some site upgrades, I picked up some Google Analytic and in-house database statistics, the numbers are really awesome. (the screenshot says everything).
But I figured out visitors are leaving the site directly they landed from Twitter. It’s because of the following two reasons: 1. Yet they have absolutely no idea of What OneExtraLap is. 2. Even though they...
A Week of Thrilling
Over the past week, our community had been growing bigger through the awesome invite system (because you get more invites to share out if you have more points). And the most important thing I found out was: people are addicted.
Even though the user base is still very very small, but based on the statistic in-house and through Google Analytic, the average pages per visit is 13.40 pages, and the...
May Awesomeness
Hello world, May!
Over the last two and half weeks, I’ve been working extremely hard and manage to finish the infrastructure reconstruction faster than what I originally expected, which is good for everyone that you guys can see some really cool features sooner.
The code base reconstruction were mostly internal which I can’t explain a lot (But if you want to learn more, just hit me...
April 2010
1 post
A Wonderful Month + Some Updates
Hello, everyone, It has been a month since our beta launch which went over perfectly, we’ve got some outstanding feedback from our users. So before anything, I want to thank all of our beta users for trying out this newbie web application. I really appreciate it. I did take two weeks off from working on OneExtraLap which I think is unnecessary right now, I’ve wrote a life reflection...
March 2010
2 posts
First Week Review
It has been the 7th day since the successful launch of OneExtraLap beta. Here I just want to give you a little nice overview on how the first week went through. Our beta users was testing and quizzing a lot of on the site, and they definitely enjoy it. (See the previous blog post to see what people are saying on Twitter.) I want to share some fun facts I collected with you guys: 7 days, 35 user...
Introducing OneExtraLap Beta
Sorry if this post is a little bit late, but I had been working extremely hard over the past 2 days to make sure the site work perfectly.
Let’s go back a little bit. 100+2 days ago, I started this little project on Thanksgiving break. It was the first app I’ve ever started. It all began as some questions about Web 2.0, and people can take a mini-quiz on them. Then couple of my friends tried it...