Whyos

We’ve been busy lately at superfluid, so I thought I’d post to update folks on the state of things at our b2b site, superfluid.biz, and encourage those who haven’t yet posted offerings to get something started. We’ve been steadily adding users, so you’re likely to find some new offerings of interest to you, and as a registered user, you can borrow a few Quids to purchase products or services before your own time gets used in the system.

In addition, we’ve just completed construction of quids.org, a non-commercial implementation of the superfluid technology. With a focus on volunteer projects, it has a simpler process, and a cost-free model that requires only a $1 donation to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.  -superfluid.biz is also free for the time being (at least a year for beta users), but will eventually have an annual subscription fee.  As quids.org is all about collaborating on services, it doesn’t allow commercial transactions, or those involving physical goods, so we don’t collect W9 information and membership is available to international participants. We envision it being used for social good/software/games/art and any number of other areas we haven’t yet conceived.

Upcoming for quids.org is a facebook application, allowing you to pull together your volunteer projects from that site as well, and a mess of other stuff that we won’t spoil by mentioning now.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please do let me know. We continue to develop superfluid.biz and quids.org with a lot of feedback from the community, and are pretty responsive to needs, whether that’s in the form of functionality or rounding up offerings of specific interest to current members.

Next week, we’ll be launching a new version of superfluid for non-professional use. This is just as exciting to us as our initial launch, and it’ll free up a lot of flexibility in model and external integration that a site for commercial offerings cannot allow. -But these benefits are really just the gravy for us, on a product for which we’ve quickly come to see the need. We’re rolling this out because we’ve seen that a number of the entities most interested in using superfluid are wanting to use it for collaborative, non-commercial, purposes (games, open source development, etc.), but core to our original b2b concept (and structure) is the idea that we could provide most benefit to businesses looking to optimize unused time or unsold product. Read More »

In something of a fluke, I’ve had a few conversations with different sorts of people over the past couple of weeks about the best ways to see a vision for a game or software project through to completion.  It may be self serving, but I think that superfluid could be the best option for many of these. A superfluid-based execution will allow almost anyone with their own marketable skill (whatever that skill is) to put together a team and execute from development through marketing and distribution, and to maintain full ownership of their baby. Read More »

…in fully functional (google-style) beta at www.superfluid.biz; when we have the chance to breathe, I’ll post further. For now, suffice it to say that we’re launched, and developing several specific community focii, including game development and marketing that may useful to readers here.

btw: If you’re a business (game developer, designer, marketing folks, etc.) that’d like to participate in superfluid, for a limited time you can submit for the beta here.

-Nathan

Superfluid has been my obsession for the past year, as we’ve been working on creating a system that can enable an elegant liquidity for business and creative initiatives. To this, my partner Branimir who was previously a physicist and remains a master of the 8-bit, brings a cold assessment of how an economy can work most legitimately and honestly. I bring a knowledge of what people find compelling in games, and how business, large and small, works.

It seems to us that in the current economy, most entities and individuals are straightjacketed by either a lack of clients, a lack of available investment dollars, or a lack of credit. And while all of these are real issues, they’re a bit pathetic in hobbling worthwhile efforts. So, we came together with an idea for a project that could bypass these problems, and help businesses to thrive and better enjoy what they do have. Read More »