Just a little Cooqy

Besides a few tweaks here and there, Cooqy has been pretty much running itself since my daughter was born last fall. This year, my free time away from Cooqy was used to provide consulting services, helping clients build Rich Internet Applications with OpenLaszlo.

During a recent period of vacationing and brooding, I have stumbled my way into a new idea for an online venture that I feel is worthwhile to pursue.

Cooqy continues to grow without requiring any of my time, other than to respond to the occasional server alert when Cooqy’s hosting provider does some maintenance that requires me to restart the server software. (Funny enough, this always seems to happen when I am out of town in an area with limited Internet access.) Help requests from users are few and far between, thanks to the reliability of the software.

I will be placing Cooqy on full autopilot now, so I can focus on building my next new thing I have named Qrowd. Cooqy was built from the ground up to not require much of my involvement anyway…my goal was to have an online service that just generates checks to my mailbox.

Cooqy reached a point recently where the server was receiving almost 10 million hits a month. It will be interesting to see how much further Cooqy can grow without my day-to-day involvement. I am hoping I can get Qrowd launched before Cooqy needs to be taken off of autopilot.

I will continue to keep a watchful eye over Cooqy. I am certainly not abandoning anything! I’m just the kind of crazy person who feels the need to have yet another ball to juggle in the air. Or are those machetes?