Portfolio

Featured Project: Musikpitch

The idea for  Musikpitch occurred to Scott McIntosh, Nashville tech entrepeneur, while in the shower on the morning of January 3:  crowdsourcing for the music business.  He looked around, didn't find any clear competitors, reserved some domain names and talked to me about building the site.

Scott was able to rapidly get funding, and I started development at the end of February.  We launched at the end of April and got coverage in Mashable, Venture Beat, the NY Times website, and the Nashville Post.

What is Musikpitch?

A site where businesses, films, people can post a project description of a need for custom music with a prize amount.  Imagine the trailer to a movie.  Then songwriters from around the world can read the brief, compose a track, submit it online, and get ratings and feedback from the contest holder.  At the end of the contest, the contest holder picks the best track and awards them the prize amount.  The contest holder gets the song.

What did Josh do?

I did all the development using Ruby on Rails.

What did Josh not do?

I did not do the design.  We did the design through CrowdSpring; which runs contests for design projects.

Other projects

Start My Song

Start My Song is a songwriter showcase with listener rankings.

What did Josh do?

All the development using Ruby on Rails.

What did Josh not do?

Design.

IASB, International Association of Speakers Bureaus website and national speaker database

The IASB is the worldwide industry association of speakers bureaus (companies that book public speakers for events).  I worked with Duane Ward, the president for that year, and the IASB Tech committee to build a brand new site.  The core of the site is a directory of thousands of speakers that member bureaus can use to search for speakers by name, location, fees and topics.

What did Josh do?

All development (using Ruby on Rails), plus running the design contest.

niceSERVE

niseSERVE is a volunteer project application built for an Orlando-based ministry.  The ministry leader selects a Saturday for service, arranges a lot of projects that need volunteers, then has people sign up for the projects across multiple local churches.

I worked on this project as a developer under Pixelgrazer, a Nashville based web development company.

What did Josh do?

All the development using Ruby on Rails.

What did Josh not do?

Design.  Daniel did.

My Bible Plans

My Bible Plans lets you select the Bible books you want to cover, the length of time, the start date and it generates a reading plan.  You can then subscribe by web, email or RSS to the daily readings.  It uses the ESV online Bible to get the verses.

What did Josh do?

Everything, including design.   Used Ruby on Rails.

Tag the Bible

Tag the Bible lets you create a personal database of keywords you've put on Bible verses.

What did Josh do?

Everything, including design.  Used Ruby on Rails.