Build a opensocial app in 3 days and launch at MySpace.

1. Fluffy Puffy Cloud Pets
Birthday: Feb 22, 2009 Sun
Birth Place: Google campus, Mountain View CA
Grandparent: Weekend App
Bess Ho
Pinky Cloud Officer
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2. Pregnancy
• 3 Days instead of 38 weeks
• Fri night 6PM Dating / Making Love
• Sat Labor Pain
• Sun 6PM Baby Delivery
Fluffy Puffy Cloud Pets http://www.FlurryPuffyCloudPets.com
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3. Fri Night
• 1st night is about Finding right Dates
• Matching common interests
• Discussing offers: skill & experience
• Acceptance & Rejection
• Exploring future plan: application
• No complete team yet
• No pain - All love - No Code
Fluffy Puffy Cloud Pets http://www.FlurryPuffyCloudPets.com
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4. Why Clouds?
• Cloud concept is coming from Audrey
• “Fluffy” = Cute
• “Puffy” = Cute
• Join the “Environmental Movement”
• Healthy Clouds = balanced ecosystem
• More Rains = More Cooling
• Generate awareness on Global Warming
Fluffy Puffy Cloud Pets http://www.FlurryPuffyCloudPets.com
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5. Cloud Parents
• Audrey Roy, Pretty Cloud Officer
• Bess Ho, Pinky Cloud Officer
• Waleed Abdulla, Weekend Cloud Officer
• Dave Doolin, Admin Cloud Officer
• Jeff Roberts, Architect Cloud Officer
• Hitesh Parashar, Money Cloud Officer
• Bill Overstreet,Virtual Cloud Officer
• Nicolas Kokkalis, Idea Cloud Officer
Fluffy Puffy Cloud Pets http://www.FlurryPuffyCloudPets.com
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6. Sat Morning Sickness
• Extreme Agile Development Cycle
• Work on the same table
• Divide the work
• Design & Layout
• Product Definition & Application Design
• API Integration & Server-side
• Database Design
• Server Admin
• Acceptance Testing
Fluffy Puffy Cloud Pets http://www.FlurryPuffyCloudPets.com
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7. Art of Making Clouds
Sleepless Hours
Hand-draw
Adobe Illustrator
Drawing Tablet
Fluffy Puffy Cloud Pets http://www.FlurryPuffyCloudPets.com
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8. Technology of
Making Clouds
• Open Social APIs
• MySpace v0.8, (Orkut v0.8)
• PHP 5 / MySQL 5
• Python 2.5 / Google App Engine Datastore
• HTML 4, CSS 2, JavaScript, AJAX
• SVN
• Google App Engine
Fluffy Puffy Cloud Pets http://www.FlurryPuffyCloudPets.com
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9. Sat Live Night
• Real work comes
• Music & Headset
• Pumping up the music
• Breaking down the house
• Rock around the clock
Fluffy Puffy Cloud Pets http://www.FlurryPuffyCloudPets.com
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10. Sun Brunch
• Praying
• More headset
• Cloud Club Bouncers - Kicking intruder off
• Many visitors suddenly asking you all sort
of non-critical questions
• Quiet before the storm 4PM DEADLINE
Fluffy Puffy Cloud Pets http://www.FlurryPuffyCloudPets.com
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11. Calling Off
• Submit our app to MySpace at 4PM
• Rejected at 5PM
• Fix bugs
• Redesign
• Resubmit again at 6PM
Fluffy Puffy Cloud Pets http://www.FlurryPuffyCloudPets.com
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12. Sun Twilight
• Bite Me if we get rejected again?
• Happy Ending
• Launch Official at MySpace 6:15PM
• Singing and Dancing in the RAIN
• RAIN IN SPAIN STAY MAINLY IN THE
PLAINS
• DEMO at 8PM
Fluffy Puffy Cloud Pets http://www.FlurryPuffyCloudPets.com
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13. Sun Night Delivery
Sky (Virtual Pet)
Shop (Virtual Good)
Gifts (Invite)
Stars (Virtual Currency)
• Let’s fluff ‘n puff a virtual cloud pet! Get together to
adopt, care and nurture pet cloud, let it grow and
then rain on someone. Hey, that’s a cool way to
save our planet. Show your carin’ and sharin’ side
by loving this little cutie. Adopt and get going. Feed
it water and it would swell with affection. Give it
colored water and see its beautiful character. After
eating the animal crackers it cracks up to shape like
camels and hippos.
Fluffy Puffy Cloud Pets http://www.FlurryPuffyCloudPets.com
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15. 10 from Hungry (Feed)
10 from Loneliness (Fluff)
= 20 Happiness (Daily Max)
Gift = Invitation
MySpace allow to invite
1 friend per click Food (Feeding)
Water, Purple Water, Emotion (Fluffing)
Animal Cracker Fluffy Hand
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16. Virtual Good
Stars =
Drops =
Virtual
Points
Currency
Fluffy Puffy Cloud Pets http://www.FlurryPuffyCloudPets.com
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17. Virtual
Engaging Currency
Metrics
Gifts Cloud
Fluffy Puffy Cloud Pets http://www.FlurryPuffyCloudPets.com
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18. Invitations / Gifts
Design Decision
Engaging Invitation
via Virtual Good
FREE Gifts
Technical
Challenge
MySpace
v0.7 != v0.8
Fluffy Puffy Cloud Pets http://www.FlurryPuffyCloudPets.com
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19. Virtual Currency
Day 1
Design Decision
Integrate Social
App with Virtual
Currency
Offerpal
Fluffy Puffy Cloud Pets http://www.FlurryPuffyCloudPets.com
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21. Day 1
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22. Day 3
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23. Weekend Launch 2 Weeks After Launch
Migrate to
MySpace Container
Google App Engine
Not Scalable
Python / Datastore
PHP / MySQL (LAMP)
Add Graphics
Working Prototype
Add Animations
Minimal Animation
Improve Scoring
2 Gifts
Improve Installation Page
SVN
Add up to 9 Gifts
Domain
Project Mgmt Wiki
Fluffy Puffy Cloud Blog
Add Facebook Group
Fluffy Puffy Website
Add Facebook Fan Page
Add Twitter
Fluffy Puffy Cloud Pets http://www.FlurryPuffyCloudPets.com
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24. Fluffy Puffy Cloud Pets http://www.FlurryPuffyCloudPets.com
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25. Joy Luck Club
• over 3,000 users in less than 7 days
• move from private shared web server
• move to Google App Engine
• Continue to work for fun
• Happy Donut at Wee Hours
Fluffy Puffy Cloud Pets http://www.FlurryPuffyCloudPets.com
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26. Fluffy Puffy Cloud Pets
FROM YOU
Open for ideas
NEXT
Cloud Sky Backgrounds
Activity Feeds
Improve UI
Focus on UXP
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27. Bess Ho
http://webbuilders.wordpress.com/
UI Designer / Developer
Social Networking
iPhone SDK app
Google Technology User Group: Open Social Champion
Technical Editor: Book on MySpace Developer Platform
Founder & Chairman of
Silicon Valley Web Builder (SVWB)
http://www.svwebbuilder.com
http://svwebbuilder.wordpress.com
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