We got to dissect our product more than ever before. Interesting questions structured around important themes led to a conference table full of ideas and connections.

We started our journey back in time. First thing was to decide where we wanted to be in one year. What kinds of experiences would uberVU provide. If uberVU was a person, what would it be like?

Moving on we got to the people that wanted to have those experiences, our users. Who are all our possible users, what are their needs and how could they use a product similar to uberVU?

It was then time to face the facts and describe how things are done right now in our market. What experiences do the users have, what technical capabilities are they using and what’s the personality of the products or processes they are using.

The most interesting part was when we had to come up with how things were done before the Internet. How did people fulfill the needs that uberVU will fulfill in a year?

All this process led to an interesting product/user life cycle. It was now clear what stages our product would have to go through to reach its maturity, what the important features were at each stage and what road a user might take from the first encounter to using uberVU every day.

All in all, a very inspiring session and highly recommended for any startup that’s trying go focus and better define what’s important.

Here are the Swede team thoughts on our workshop.

As part of our Seedcamp program, we got to go through Swedecamp - a day-long intensive deconstruction of our product and company so that we could reconstruct them in better and more effective form.

It was awesome. We’ll give you a lot more details on how it went, but we’ll let them give you a heads-up on their blog first.

Watch out for their post - I highly recommend you read it, as their process can be really insightful for any startup.

During the past few months we’ve been building something very special, something that we’re really passionate about. And we’re really close to showing it to you guys.

It’s that great time in a company’s life when you really decide what you’re building, and who it’s for, and what’s the best path to change the world with your product and company.

What you realize, though, is that after setting the vision and making all the tough decision, you have to actually build a great product. Vision without execution means nothing.

We couldn’t have built what we have right now without a great group of people that have been working hard with us side by side during the last few months. uberVU got where it is right now thanks to these great guys.

Here they are, in no particular order:



Mihnea - always dependable and a great photographer.



Mihai D - really fun to be around, great addition to the team



Mihai P - really loves to work on difficult problem, search, scaling, architecture and the likes.



Manu - really fun guy that brings the “element of surprise” to the team



Cristi - always willing to work on whatever needs to be done if that helps the team

Thanks guys, we would not have got here without you.

We just updated the homepage and would love to know your thoughts:

- is what we do clear enough?
- Is it easy enough to navigate
- random thoughts and opinions

Thanks guys.

The title sums it up. We’re looking for some talented people that want the chance to tackle a really interesting technical problem in a very cool startup environment. You’ll be working on an international product that could go huge and have a lot of impact world-wide. The team is small, so what you work on really has an impact.

We need talented programmers that know Python and/or PHP really well. We’re looking more for talent, passion and can-do attitude, but experience does not hurt either. So if you don’t know Python but you’re great with Rails or Lisp, for example, and have all of the qualities above, still come and talk to us.

In short, if you’re passionate about Web programming and want to work on something difficult but also very cool and with a lot of impact, we want to talk to you.

Drop an e-mail at hello@ubervu.com and we’ll move things forward from there.