The Lunch break entrepreneur

I want to make sure that I have every detail of sumrshr.com mapped out and all functionality accounted for. When I turn the site over to programmers its full steam ahead and doing detailed wire frames helps resolve most issues before they become expensive during programming. I spend a lot of time on this and run them past friends often to get feedback. I pretty much have it down during the process I have eliminated some features that I think will add more cost than benefit. Here's a picture from the living room mess.

I wanted to use a tool that I can find everywhere so this time I used ... PowerPoint. I am in the interactive industry and have built many large complex web sites so I'll probably hear a lot about that, but it is actually working out very well. PowerPoint is easy to use, anyone has it on their PC so when I am showing it to someone I can make changes on the fly. And PowerPoint can be hyper linked so that I was able to create a simple prototype by exporting it and uploading to a server. This has allowed my to share it with others and do some really rapid prototyping. If I had used Visio it would have looked more professional which is good with clients, but it would have taken me ages.

So far the feature set is as follows:

• Registration
• Create summer share home page
• Invite friends
• Browse summer shares (browse home pages)
• Upload photos (house, personal and profile)
• Discussion boards / chat
• Personal profiles
• Announcement (from admin)
• To do list / shopping list
• Calendar
• House email
• Weekly house email update
• Fan / friends of the house
• Members management
• House info
• House rules manager
• Friend finder
• Google maps

• Import profile from facebook, myspace, hotmail etc.
• Import friends from facebook, myspace, hotmail etc.
• Chat from meebo.com
• Payment from Paypal
• Image resizing from GD or ImageMagick (not misspelled)