IMIFIED = Making the Money Point

On February 3rd, a couple of guys (Dave and Anthony) said the following on a blog:

"4 months, a few bucks, and a couple cases of Redbull later, Imified is finally open!"

Imified is basically a service where you use your IM client to do all kinds of things for you without, for example, logging into your Google Calendar application.

What they say:

"WHY SHOULD I USE IT?

Because you shouldn't have to launch your browser to add a new appointment to your Google calendar, or complete a todo in your backpack account. Imified is always open, sitting right there in your favorite IM client ready to help. If you have an IM client running on your mobile phone, you've got instant access to your applications wherever and whenever. Cool huh?"

 

Is is just another feature? Will it require zillions of dollars to get to scale? Will it make money? Will it sell to the MYGA junta? (Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, AOL)

Doesn't matter for the purposes of making my start up point.

Go code something. Go solve a problem.

There has never been a better time to take a shot

Comments

[Kelly Stewart]

Rick, I'm giving IMified a try and will blog about my findings.

[Varun Mathur]

"Go code something. Go solve a problem.

There has never been a better time to take a shot"

..nicely said.

'Tis the time to build.

[pwb]

While I'm cuatiously optimistic, I can't help but identify a false premise: how often are we "launching" our browsers these days? Once a week? Once a month?