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We are here to stay
Adormo is (not) written in the sand
If you are an Owner you probably receive many emails from online reservation portals offering you to join.
The question you ask yourself probably goes along these lines:
“Will it be worth? Are they not going to disappear soon as many others did?”.
It’s a good question and you are right to ask it. Read the rest of this entry »
Owner Site: quick guide to create your accommodation website
This is a quick and dirty guide to let you get stared with your website in Adormo.
It covers just the basics but should be enough to have a nice website in a few hours.
Assumptions:
- You have created an account.
- You add accommodations (not other items such as bananas or services).
- You can write emails, add attachments and do these basic things online (you don’t need to be a genius or a computer expert).
- You are NOT using Internet Explorer 6. If you do, please contact us, you need serious help and should not be online at all for your safety and that of your family.
How long does it take?
If you have the text and other content ready, you could be up and running in less than 2 hours.
It will probably take more than that once you realize how many things you can do and try to make your website nicer and more complete.
We suggest to do a fast version first and then keep improving it forever. It’s free to change things.
Priorities
I recently run a poll amongst managers to check on what the priorities are for them.
Here are the results and my comments:
New features (9 votes) vs better existing features (6 votes)
As you can see they are very close.
I read this as more or less “let’s not add new features fast just to have them, but let’s make the system stronger every day and also add new features”.
This may seem obvious but it’s not.
It goes down very well with the decision to develop incrementally, that is: built a new feature very basically and then iterate (improve, get feedback, improve, get feedback …) quickly.
In other words, each time you get a new feature it will be a half baked product good enough to let you do very basic things.
But since basic things are 90% of real world usage it makes sense.
Often a new feature will generate a lot of work for you, so you tell us “come on, make this automatic” and if your request is useful also for most users, we’ll do it.
The best thing of this approach is that we can avoid the sexy but unuseful functionalities, the ideas you get when you develop lost in your nerdy world with absolutely no connection to reality.
Those normally come out like “let’s do a calendar which auto generates rss and sends an email to every Owner except those who have a conversion rate lower than 15% and red hair, and let them order pizza online without even needing to know it because our algorithm decided they are hungry“. Read the rest of this entry »