Introducing Journey
Introducing Journey – online surveys the way they should be. With Journey, creating a survey is simple, flexible, and hassle-free.
After seven weeks of private beta testing, Journey is open for business. I’m proud to be offering straightforward online survey creation for marketers, researchers, and anyone else who just wants answers.
Journey’s launch also marks the start of a new business venture: Sugar Pond. Sugar Pond is a software company dedicated to communication, user empowerment, and community. You can read more about what Sugar Pond stands for in our manifesto.
I really want to thank everyone who’s provided feedback, encouragement, and sage advice these past few months. I’m truly proud to know all of you, and grateful that you’ve helped me get this little project to this point.
Now, I have one more favor to ask of you all: please let people know. The best way to get the word out is to link people to this posting, or to the Journey home page, on your blog, Twitter, Facebook, Livejournal, or whatever else you use. If you believe Journey can be a success, please help me out by spreading the word about it.
And if you believe Journey could be a success if only I changed that one little thing, I want your honest feedback. Please, always feel free to email me at nat@sugarpond.net with your ideas, suggestions, and complaints. I want to hear from you.
Looks neat! At some point, we ought to talk about integration — even if the amount of cross-promotion between Journey and CommYou was small, I suspect we’d both learn a lot from talking about how an integration path might work. I’ve been pondering the appropriate relationship of CommYou to survey engines; talking through a concrete example would be great, and we might even come up with some APIs to play with.
And heaven knows, the two potentially synergize nicely. (Although CommYou is currently further behind in implementation, due to my release-3 ground-up rewrite.) I specifically want CommYou to stick to its knitting as much as possible, focusing on conversation — that implies that I need some way to integrate nicely with one or more third-party survey engines…
Thanks, Mark!
I’d love to talk integration sometime. One of my plans for the next release is to begin stabilizing and documenting the API for external app integration. You can already do some stuff automatically using the XML and CSV export features, but it’d be nice to let other apps do more detailed manipulation of survey data.
With CommYou in particular, the use case that immediately comes to mind for me is informal, single-question surveys that you respond to by IM. I’m sure there must be plenty of other interesting ones too, and I’d certainly be interested to chat about the possibilities.
Congratulations, Nat! Looks great so far.
Thanks very much Cid!