Congratulations (to both) it’s about time ProductWiki finally got featured on TechCrunch in an article by Erick Schonfeld titled: ProductWiki’s Formula For Unbiased Reviews.
Less than a week after getting some love in a CrunchGear post, Schonfeld met Omar at the TechCrunch Boston Meetup and had the following to report in his article.
“The idea behind ProductWiki is to create collaborative product reviews that boil all the judgments about a product into one single review. It avoids revision wars by requiring every reviewer to list both pros and cons, and then every other ProductWiki reader can vote on each pro and each con until a consensus emerges.”
“ProductWiki is another bootstrap startup with three employees (Omar, his sister Amanie, and her husband Erik). It was launched in November, 2005, and has about 15,000 product reviews.”
I find it amazing (but typical of TechCrunch) that these reviews mention nothing about the amazing system software they’ve designed, let alone the 3 major design iterations they have implemented since 2005. It is pretty evident that these writers know nothing about the actual technology. If they did, they would be writing about how amazing their custom Wiki software really is and not about “I know the iPod and the Zune are related products, but what about the more tangential connections, like the toaster oven with the iPodish design? That is what I’d like to see.”
ProductWiki System Facts:
ProductWiki runs on their custom Wiki software platform using a .NET framework from the ground up, MySQL DB, FCKEditor, and Ajax.NET Professional.