Afinito http://afinito.posterous.com What do you love? posterous.com Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:57:47 -0800 Already 450 members and more than 4600 things listed and counting... http://afinito.posterous.com/already-450-members-and-more-t http://afinito.posterous.com/already-450-members-and-more-t Thank you everyone for being part of Afinito. Hope to come in the next weeks with new social features to improve the interaction between the whole community.
Meanwhile, here is a great website to enjoy, www.playingforchange.com. Just watch and listen the "Revolution" song, a great one!

The best

Nils

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/3511/Image_69.png http://posterous.com/people/biDa8NO5Q Nils Van Brabant Nils Nils Van Brabant Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:59:23 -0800 Welcome Chile ! http://afinito.posterous.com/welcome-chile http://afinito.posterous.com/welcome-chile Chile and spanish speakers are in the place today after that the great and popular Fayerwayer.com reviewed the site.
Thank you Alex, Leo and all the team, you are making a great job!

The post attracted so much traffic that we needed to migrated from Slicehost.com (a great hosting company) to an other great one, with more power : linode.com.

Buena onda amigos y gracias para ser miembros de Afinito!

The best.

Nils

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/3511/Image_69.png http://posterous.com/people/biDa8NO5Q Nils Van Brabant Nils Nils Van Brabant Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:10:25 -0800 Everything about Afinito http://afinito.posterous.com/everything-about-afinito http://afinito.posterous.com/everything-about-afinito Few days ago, Corentino from the Mon bouquet blog interviewed me about the Afinito history (Idea, market, development time, costs, future, ...)

Here is the Google translation of the post he published in french on his blog. Thank you Corentin!

Have a great day, and thank you for joining the Afinito's community everyday.

Nils

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/3511/Image_69.png http://posterous.com/people/biDa8NO5Q Nils Van Brabant Nils Nils Van Brabant Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:45:51 -0800 It's all about love, Steve said... http://afinito.posterous.com/its-all-about-love-steve-said http://afinito.posterous.com/its-all-about-love-steve-said Afinito is all about love, so in this blog I will also share some of the best articles and videos about this wonderfull subject...
Let's begin with the famous commencement addressed by Steve Jobs delivered on June 12, 2005.

You will find the whole text here.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/3511/Image_69.png http://posterous.com/people/biDa8NO5Q Nils Van Brabant Nils Nils Van Brabant Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:57:00 -0800 2 days after, stats http://afinito.posterous.com/2-says-after-stats http://afinito.posterous.com/2-says-after-stats

2 days after "official" launch, I would like to thanks people who are using Afinito. You are already 70 users that registered in nearly 2 days, not impressive, but I am happy. Very happy to see that the app is used by more than one person. It's already a great reward and I hope it will continue to grow like this.

Here, in the pictures below, are the statitstics of the last days.
We already have a heavy user : trentemoller that added 281 things in his list, congrats! I never tought a list could be so long.

Keep in touch and have a great day!

Nils

See and download the full gallery on posterous

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/3511/Image_69.png http://posterous.com/people/biDa8NO5Q Nils Van Brabant Nils Nils Van Brabant Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:41:43 -0800 Afinito is now open! Welcome to... everyone who love at least 1 thing in life http://afinito.posterous.com/afinito-is-now-open-welcome-to http://afinito.posterous.com/afinito-is-now-open-welcome-to

First, a story, Afinito has been developed 3 times by 3 differents freelance developpers. I had the idea one year ago, and since 2 developers had gone with all the money I paid them to develop the app + the time I spent and loose to work with those people.

3rd time was the good one, I finally found a serious man, not only a professional but a person who is going to the end of the job, and that's very difficult to find in the IT industry. So keep the faith, always!
Everything looks great and easy at the beginning but building an application takes a lot of time, and the finetuning period is the most time consuming. There is still some bugs, errors, and usablity problems, but the site is working. And I want to thank you Onno for the great work and commitment you made.

Now I have to shout to the world that Afinito exists and I am begining from scratch... a long and hard way is waiting me. I started with 20 of my friends to test the app in the first week, and now begining the promotion.
What I did yesterday and today was to send email to present Afinito to the main tech blogs, like Techcrunch, Fayerwayer... I also send emails to Leo of Zenhabits.net and other bloggers actives in the field of personal growth I found on Alltop.com, the Guy Kawasaki project.

Since yesterday, I already had 2 articles in two french blogs : http://www.accessoweb.com by Philippe Lagane and also on the Pierre Chapaz blog : Kelblog, Thx to them!
I also had a feedback from Leo Babauta (Zenhabits.net) who will probably add the link here http://zenhabits.tumblr.com/ and the Fayerwayer team, will also write an article about Afinito. Thx in advance to Leo and Alexander from the Fayerwayer team.

I wish you all the love! And I apologize for my bad english.

Nils

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/3511/Image_69.png http://posterous.com/people/biDa8NO5Q Nils Van Brabant Nils Nils Van Brabant Fri, 31 Oct 2008 06:30:32 -0700 Private opening http://afinito.posterous.com/private-opening http://afinito.posterous.com/private-opening Glad to open Afinito's doors to it's first users, 15 friends. Still need for some finetuning, and debugging.
But Afinito is working. Thx Onno, you already made a wondefull job, even if it's only the begining...

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/3511/Image_69.png http://posterous.com/people/biDa8NO5Q Nils Van Brabant Nils Nils Van Brabant Fri, 31 Oct 2008 06:19:27 -0700 The power of love http://afinito.posterous.com/the-power-of-love http://afinito.posterous.com/the-power-of-love Love is the most basic and powerful human emotion. When you really love (things, people, feelings, places) everything is possible and you have the truly desire to shout it to the world. It's natural. You cannot calculate it, it comes from your deep inner being. 
Love is all around and will connect you with like-minded things or people. It's like a magnet that will attract what you enjoy the most.

You can accelerate the process of living the life you love by doing 3 simple things:
1) Write down and very specifically states what you love.
2) Eliminate distractions. Constantly focuses on what you love.
3) Keep moving, actually takes action to make it happen.


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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/3511/Image_69.png http://posterous.com/people/biDa8NO5Q Nils Van Brabant Nils Nils Van Brabant Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:54:00 -0700 3rd time, never give up, keep walkig... http://afinito.posterous.com/3rd-time-never-give-up-keep-wa http://afinito.posterous.com/3rd-time-never-give-up-keep-wa
3rd times that I begin again this project from scratch!
The first developer was chilean, he never finished the project and went away in the nature with the money and a macbook I paid him to develop the whole app, after 1 year of hope, he just disapear. I decided to begin again with an Argentinian this time. Same thing, he worked well 1 month and then just disapear whithout saying anything. No excuse, no sorry, no explanation, nothing.
I was really sad to see the lack of respect and courage of this 2 people. It was a hard experience for me.
Now I found a belgian developer who is working well until now, he begun this monday 4 august 2008. It's my ultimate chance. Never give up, I have the faith that something nice will happen. Never loose the faith.
On his first day, he designed the home page with the registration and login process. Second day was dedicated to add entries and design the autocompletion. Third was to redesign the models. Let's see where everything will lead...

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/3511/Image_69.png http://posterous.com/people/biDa8NO5Q Nils Van Brabant Nils Nils Van Brabant Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:49:29 -0700 Productivity = 3 simple words http://afinito.posterous.com/productivity-3-simple-words http://afinito.posterous.com/productivity-3-simple-words
  • write down
  • focus
  • action

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