plantality.com is my attempt at creating a dynamic web 2.0 style user driven website. Rudabet.com (this site) is my behind the scenes blog about plantality.com.
plantality.com is an interactive website for gardeners to relax and socialise. The first release contains social networking features ala facebook including a social activity stream, messaging, status updates, photo uploads and blogging. The website is entirely bootstrapped.
The total costs before release are less than $2000 and I intend to make it profitable as soon as possible and from then on it should be self funding. I am the sole designer and developer but I will be sub-contracting out for those areas where I do not have the skill or time, such as graphic and website design.
On Rudabet.com I intend to blog about my experiences creating and running plantality.com. I’ve recently been reading Patrick McKenzies blog at Kalzumeus.com and intend to follow his model of posting about marketing, technical issues and, above all, being open about costs and revenues. If you are interested in bootstrapping a website, then I hope you will find something of interest in here.