The Blog

We have just pushed live a bunch of changes to SpotOn! some of the more notable are here:

1. jQuery, jQuery, jQuery!: For the technophiles we have consolidated all of our JavaScript frameworks and have moved everything to jQuery. We will be really taking advantage of the cool UI stuff in a later release but this step helps us get there faster.
2. Updates to the interface: You will notice that things look a little different. We have made some graphical changes to the interface and soon will allow you to customize the colors. There is a new login screen and the overall look has been updated.
3. Various bug fixes: We have fixed quite a few bugs that we found throughout the system Things such as todos and milestones hanging and files not uploading correctly.
4. New tutorials!: We have updated our tutorials and you can access those from the project initial screen.

As always we welcome your feedback and strive to create the best project management application possible!

Otis Dev Team

Wow what a crazy few months it has been. Some of you may know but SpotOn! is brought to you by Otis Technologies, a company that has been creating enterprise level applications for big box retailers for about 7 years now. We created SpotOn! to be a tool that allowed smaller businesses to be able to harness what we have done in the enterprise sector for a much more affordable price.

Because we do work with larger businesses sometimes our development time is moved away from what we love (SpotOn!). SpotOn! was released last fall to little fanfare but has caught a great grassroots following in the project management field. We were mentioned on Web Worker Daily and it gave a nice boost to signups and the buzz around it.

Well we noticed in our Google Analytics stats that we all the sudden had a surge of vistors with a lot of them being direct hits… meaning people just typing in the domain… which in Internet marketing speak means that you were featured somewhere in print.

After some P.I work we were able to find a blog post on PCWorld.com that was sending us a few hits so we thought that maybe we were in the print version of PCworld. Alan was on his way to Publix so he picked up a copy and sure enough there we were!

If you want to read the article in electronic form you can go to:

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/142807/simpler_projectmanaging_apps_get_the_job_done.html

This caught us off guard because we had yet to do anything as far as press releases or anything like that. This just goes to show that if you create software that helps people do things better that it will just take off. Tell your friends about us and what you experience. The best review we can get is from someone who has used the application and has told someone else who trusts their opinion, that is worth it’s weight in GOLD.

So welcome to all the PC World users and this is just the beginning. We have a lot going on around here and you will see lots of things happening soon!