We were privileged to put our HTML & CSS where our mouth is with another no-nonsense restaurant website. One page with a menu, location, hours, phone, and Twitter. And it’s responsive. Great barbecue, fried chicken, and sides are the stars of the show not music or Flash. Get in, get out.

If you’re in Pittsburgh, what are you waiting for? Go get some grub.

For the past year, beginning even before the incredibly successful Kickstarter campaign for the GoPano Micro¹, the EyeSee360 team has been working around the clock to create the best hardware and software possible. We were fortunate to have a role incubating the video sharing site as well as the EyeSee360 company site, the Shopify-based store for buying GoPano products, and the official GoPano iPhone app for recording, sharing, and viewing 360° videos. If you have an iPhone, you can download the app now to view the videos.

To say we were thrilled to work with a local company making unique, exciting products for the best phone in the world would be an understatement. We are eagerly looking forward to seeing the GoPano platform improve as the tools for making 360° video are made available to everyone. The first time you are able to simultaneously capture your kid blowing out the candles and her grandmother’s reaction you’ll be sold on the appeal of omnidirectional video.

It’s not often you get a chance to participate in the early stages of what has the potential to revolutionize an industry. We are grateful for the opportunity and pleased with the result.

Check out this 360° video of the Pittsburgh Penguins warming up. Click and drag to view the video in all directions.

1. The GoPano Micro was one of the most successful projects in Kickstarter history, and the most funded iPhone project ever.

Needless to say, Jay and I were head over heels for the chance to combine websites, sports, and games. Once we convinced Matt to do the heavy lifting on the back end, we sat down to hammer out the details of what would become Bandwagon Sports.

In retrospect, we spent a crazy amount of time upfront debating the pros and cons of various approaches. How could we differentiate this idea from fantasy sports and gambling? How could we convince people with precious little free time to try yet another game? What concepts should we borrow from other community sites? How would all the various rules affect gameplay? We have mounds of sketches and Skype recordings and collaborative docs debating these points in painful detail.

Ultimately, we designed and built an invite-only application with trading, commenting, following, badges, a leaderboard, and an activity stream. All that was completed in time for the NFL season opener last September. Modeling a stock market with real time trading is no easy task, and we’re mighty proud of the design, the back-end work, and the aggressively modern CSS.¹ Using ESPN, Yahoo!, etc. has always been a bit of a struggle. Our goal was to make an extremely friendly, clean interface that made it easy to buy and sell teams. The concept is complicated, but the interaction shouldn’t be.

Having had a year to think about it, we were thrilled when we had a chance to revisit some of those decisions in time for this NFL season. We threw out badges (not executed well), restructured the way stocks paid out dividends (too complicated), added some team performance bonuses for spice, and threw open the doors to everyone. If you follow the NFL religiously (RedZone + Bandwagon = win) or just want to kick the tires, you can still sign up. The site is still in beta while we test again this NFL season. If all goes well, however, we’re hoping to add sports, custom leagues for you and your friends, and dozens of other features to make playing easier and more fun.

Bandwagon was the first application completely designed and developed by Full Stop. We learned a tremendous amount about that entire process. It’s a whole different ballgame compared to putting CMS-driven content sites out into the world, and it led directly to several additional (and ongoing) application projects that keep the lights on and the synapses blazing new paths.

Scott has been a wonderful client for us, and it’s been an absolute pleasure from beginning to end. It certainly has some rough edges, but with enough time and effort, maybe one day team IPOs will be as common as fantasy drafts. We certainly hope so.

1. Super happy with how the tabs and the buttons turned out in particular. You can check out my player page for examples.