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Feedback Request: Executive Bored - Support group for people stuck at work
I just opened the doors on a site Monday and would love feedback.
http://www.executivebored.com
Background (read after you check out the site)
I'm a mid-20s city-dweller with lots of accountant/consultant/white collar friends. They all share one thing - they hate their jobs. Also, the sites they used as procrastination fuel in college are definitely not work safe. The old tricks don't work in the office.
A writer friend (he works in HR) and I wondered if we could make something that "took care" of them during the work day so they could laugh about the situation together and get on with work. That's the audience and problem.
That was 12 days ago. Here's what we did since then to road test a solution:
1) Decided to attack with an "open magazine"-style site, a la JPGmag.com and College Humor.com. These sites are driven by a stable of contributors who "seed" the way for members to post their own stuff.
2) Picked Drupal to build it on. It's got the feature-set for a site like this.
3) Grabbed a domain name - Executive Bored,.
4) Thought up content with an eye toward making it easy to post stuff that seems natural in a work environment. You can post stuff you bought at work, links to music you listen to at work, videos you watch at the office, games you play in the office and stories about work, all anonymously.
I added some basic social networking features, profile pages, friending, a few profile fields, ability to track your submissions.
5) I worked away on it in my spare time for a few days. Sunday night we e-mailed friends and family about it. We started posting the next day. Response has been very positive. We're just now telling people we don't know about it.
So that's Executive Bored. Monday we had 70 people drop by. Yesterday we had 200 people drop by. Today's looking like a 250-300 day and another 10 sign ups or so.
Thoughts?