First of all, welcome to the new and improved Underdog Solutions website! My design dream has finally come true thanks to the DesignHope contest and the guys at FortySeven Media!. Thank you very much Jonathan and Nate for all the hard work you guys put into this! This truly was a blessing and great overall experience!
Now, seeing as how I decided to scrap all previously existing posts in lieu of this much needed facelift, I will summarize where Underdog Solutions came from, what it's been up to and where it hopes to be going in 2010 and beyond!
Underdog Solutions began operating at the beginning of 2009 w/ a team consisting of me, myself and I. The first half of the year was quite stressful as I had a lot to learn and felt completely overwhelmed at times. From the start I took a very ad-hoc approach to design and development, doing my best to learn what I needed to along the way. Unfortunately, I did what any anxious developer does at least once or twice before learning the hard way and jumped into development w/out spending any time on design. I ended up with a semi-functional application which was extremely flawed from a design perspective. Once I realized this I had to make an extremely difficult decision to either release a product that I knew will ultimately fail just to get it out there or risk more than I originally intended to pursue a quality product which I could not only be proud of, but which could at least have the potential for success. I chose the latter of the two, scrapped my project and got to work on designing a new interface. Perhaps this second attempt was overly ambitious as I planned for a ton of features which simply don't exist yet. On the flip side, this gives me a lot of stuff to add in future updates which will hopefully keep users coming back and provide added incentives for future buyers. At any rate, the planning was well worth the effort and I have confidence that this application will be successful to at least some degree. Which degree that is, only time will tell.
Regardless, iDiscGolf 1.0 is almost out the door, at which point I will begin to offer my services to those in need of experienced iPhone developers as I work towards bringing iDiscGolf to completion. At any rate, 2010 will be an exciting year for Underdog Solutions and it is great that we now have a home we can be proud of! Thanks again FortySeven Media and everyone else participating in the DesignHope contest!
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