FundEasy - Personal Fundraising Websites
FundEasy was a milestone this year. The short story is that the company I work for, Ministry Sync, provides web-based event management software to non-profits. We get a LOT of “a-thon” types of events. You know…walk-a-thon, bike-a-thon, etc. These events almost always require particpants to raise their own sponsorships. To meet demand for this we developed FundEasy, another app that lets event participants set up their own personal fundraising website. It’s very cool, you should check it out!
This was a big deal, the first time I’d helped design and build a large-scale web application from beginning to end. I didn’t program it, but I had my hands in PHP a lot and beefed up my skills with JavaScript and UI design. I didn’t fully understand until this time these languages could be object-oriented as well, like Objective-C. I though that was something special about desktop programming languages. See what happens when you assume?
I really felt like I was getting the hang of programming, and I got a taste for what it’s like to have literally thousands of people using something I had worked on. I was developing a taste for application development. Web apps are so much more fun to work on than web sites, and I could only imagine how cool it would be to build an app for the iPhone.
With FundEasy launched, I could finally shift my attention to other things. I was eager to see where God would lead me next.
Oddly enough I came “this close” to starting a screen printing business. It was a really random idea, and I’m still pretty surprised that I was so gung-ho about it, but at the time I think I my mind just needed something radically different to work on. Goes to show you how you need to pace yourself with these things. Let you mind rest after you push it hard for a few months, and don’t make too much of the irrational thoughts that follow during that rest period.
