Bag of tricks
from
iusethis.com

6. Who's behind iusethis?
Is it a corporate thingie?
Nah. Iusethis was made
by Arne and Marcus. We're
just these guys, you know?
But we really know where
our towels are.

Social
Software
For Software

Status after 3 years
• 50.000 registered users
• 10.000 registered apps
• ~ 250.000 page views per day
• 26.000 revisions committed to
SVN

Catalyst made such
rapid development
possible

While still
keeping it
sane to
maintain

Design Philosophies
• Less is More. Keep it Simple
• URLs matter!
• AJAX when it makes sense
• Support standards
• Provide alternative
data-formats
• The user owns his data

AJAX