We launched ApartmentADDA on Nov 12th, 2008 and today this site turns 3 !
I think it is apt to look at the analytics like how we would look at a kid – how tall he or she has grown! The above snapshot is from Google Analytics of Visitors from the beginning of time till today.
The mini spike after Nov 2008 was on January 2009 – when I informed about this venture in my batch’s email list. Facebook had not taken off then yet.
The next big spike after Nov 2009 was on January 2010 – when Bangalore Mirror put us on Front page! Today we get more than 3 times that much traffic in a day.
Google Analytics now gives realtime reporting – it is surreal to watch the clicks and the dots show up on the world’s map.
So what is next for this kid? “Changing Orbits” of course – quoting our good friend and mentor Mr.Sharad Sharma.
This is a post I wanted to write for a long time. Here are some screenshots of how
Apartment Adda looked at different stages.
October 2007 : I spent a weekend creating a prototype of Apartment Adda. Got an open source web design template from
owsd.org and was able to quickly create a working site.
We had one goal for our UI to begin with. When a user logs in he need not click on different pages to see what is happening in his or her Adda. In one click he should get to see all the updates and also get a bird’s eye view of everything – without getting flooded with information.
We finally came up with a dashboard design that will show the latest updates in nice little widgets – where each widget will act like a summary page for the detailed page.
After this prototype was done we used this to brain storm about Apartment Adda and flush out the stories.
Around September 2008 when I started full time development on Apartment Adda, I got one more template from oswd.org. Decided to go with Php and this is how the UI looked like.
Home Page :
While I was developing the site, simultaneously we got the help of a UI design firm –
Cicada Media, Bangalore. Mr. Binil designed the vibrant Apartment Adda logo and Mr.Balaji designed the style sheets, buttons and layout. Many thanks to Cicada team for the UI upgrade of Apartment Adda !!
Here is how Apartment Adda looks as of today.
HomePage :
Resident’s Dashboard :
Admin’s Dashboard :
Apartment Adda was launched on Nov 12th-2008 and today, Feb 1-2009, the 1000th “unique” visitor has visited our site.
It is a great feeling – something that we have created has been looked at by 1000 people – many of whom I might never meet or get to know. I feel as if I have shaken hands with those many people – virtually. Some might have patted my back, some might have rubbed their chin, some might have just said a neutral hmm.. – to all those pairs of eyes – Thanks for visiting Apartment Adda.
Next milestone – 10,000th unique visitor.
I am happy to announce the launch of ApartmentAdda.com – it is an online portal for communication and management for apartment communities.
Today most of the apartment communities network online using yahoo groups or google groups. Apartment Adda is a replacement to these groups and in addition provides more tools custom built for apartment communities – like notice board, file sharing, polls and also management tools like maintenance fee tracker, issue tracker etc.
It is close to 2 months since I started working on this. Has been quite a roller coaster ride. Had to take care of legal aspects, UI design, logo, the mantra, features page – it is endless !! Is my work over? -no in fact it is just beginning and things are getting really interesting !!
Head over to apartmentadda.com and see if it can benefit you. It sure will !!
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