Between having a full time job and family, I don’t have a ton of time on my hands for projects. That said, here’s a couple of things that I’ve either worked on in the past or am currently working on.
Uber Politics (2010 – 2012)
I’ve always been passionate about British Politics. While I was in University, I joined a political party (Labour) and became heavily engaged in my student union as a change maker. Uber Politics was born out of that interest.
The concept was pretty straightforward – originally it was going to be my home online for posting about my opinions on politics. I realized pretty quickly however that similar formats already existed and at that particular moment in time I didn’t have a lot to bring to the table. Instead, along with a friend I built a website where a group of people from all ends of the political spectrum were free to submit posts regarding the latest political happenings at the time. Posts were clearly labelled with their authors political leanings in order to provide transparency and healthy discussion was encouraged in the comments.
Covering topics as diverse as the London Riots to the ending of low-cost university tuition, there was always something new to read! Unfortunately the realities of running the website on an effective budget of, er, zero eventually caught up with us and the website closed in 2012. While I considered relaunching it a number of times, I never found the right moment in which to do so.
Srcd. formerly Betteration (2021 – Present)
Betteration began a project that I’d had on the back burner for a number of years under various different names. The idea was fairly basic – I was hoping to offer affordable web solutions for to small businesses that didn’t have presently have one. I was initially inspired after seeing a small business driving a van around with a generic billandbobplumbing@bell.ca type email address on the side and thinking “who would trust that email address?”
In 2024 I renamed the project Srcd. and am currently working on tweaking the business model for a relaunch later this year. Watch this space for more updates!
