This seems like a good day to start our Friday blog/ update.
It’s the end of a week that has seen us take the decision to put ourselves out
there and get to know our peers, predecessors and predators in the wide world. So
perhaps it’s time to share what we’re up to. Look on this as the start of a
tradition…
FLARE, our first product is still in heavily restricted beta
at http://www.liveflare.com. Call it
semi-stealth or (whatever you like), but we’ve deliberately held back as there’s
so much we want to do with FLARE before it goes ‘officially’ live and takes
over the world.
We’ve got some really exciting things up our sleeves that
will change the way we all manage our careers, apply for jobs and promote
ourselves in the world, but right now FLARE exists in an early version that
lets you create a great CV/ resume document. It’s only a foundation, but our
test users have been very positive about what FLARE has done for them.
Check out the quick animation we launched this week (and meet
our mascot Bjorn Stardust):
In other news, Rich has been working on a cool new CV creator/
editor with some great drag-and-drop functions that will start to move the user
interface and experience in the way we want it to go. It’s coming together
really nicely, but as a perfectionist Rich is improving it literally every 15
minutes!
Having put together the extremely powerful WorkTouch
platform, which is the future-proof bit of tech we’re building FLARE and all
our future products on, Dan has taken a side step this week to develop his
knowledge of .Net 4 MVC, which is giving him a whole new angle to increase the
efficiency of our back end. We’ll put these new skills to work in unique ways…
Andy has been out developing contacts with everyone from
partners to peers, to potential investors. We’ve got some really exciting
things happening behind the scenes that will all be integrated in the FLARE
live launch, but it’s been great to see people (especially major industry
players) getting what we’re doing with FLARE and wanting to be part of it.
All in all, it’s a crazy time – things happening all the
time and plenty more to come. We’ll keep you posted!
