Hey all,
My names is James Chillcott/Faust X.
Some of you may know me simply as one of the more prolific collectors on the site. I've been collecting Transformers, GIJOE, Star Wars, Vinyl, 3A, etc for about 5 years now, and am proud to say that my collection now fills most of 2 rooms in my place. You may have bought some extras from me or seen me at a toy show in Southern Ontario.
But what many of you likely don't know is that I'm also the Senior Partner at the web agency Advoca (
www.advoca.com) and that my team has been working hard on building a highly innovative collecting platform for most of this year to get us all free of the flawed and expensive Ebay paradigm once and for all.
That project, code named Project X for now, is in full-throttle development at present and we are aiming for an early Q4 2011 launch (we originally launched curator functionality in March, but we've added tons of functionality to the mix so coding is taking a long, long time).
We're now at the point where we need a test community to help explore the potential of the platform, to help us identify logic and usability issues, and to get in on the ground floor of the site in a way that will lead to major benefits for each of the beta testers moving forward.
Without your signature on an NDA, I can't say much more except that getting involved will probably require 3-10 hrs of your time per week for about 2 weeks. You will have full control over your level of commitment and the more time you put in the more you will get out of it in real $$$ terms.
If this is sounding cryptic, no worries.
If you want to learn more or get involved, please RSVP in this thread and send me your full contact info including name, phone and address to
jameschillcott@gmail.com so that we can prep your NDA (non-disclosure agreement).
We are especially interested in talking to the admins and super-admins of this site and the most experienced collectors as their encyclopedic knowledge of bots will be highly valuable in the roles in which our beta testers will be cast.
Note: If you are bad at keeping secrets you will want to steer clear of this....everyone in attendance will be contractually obligated to secrecy for at least 6 weeks. This is not a media session and you will NOT be able to post details to the 'Net afterward.
Looking forward to a great launch in the near future.
James Chillcott
Faust X
Project Lead - Project X
