The Day Site - Launched!
Sun, 28th December 2008 - 01:51 AM   |   640 views   |  comments

A couple of days back I was talking to a friend late night and whining about how terrible things look especially with loads of assignments and reports submission lined up for the week. I have this small “paper board” thing hooked up on my wall that I use to place old-fashioned sticky notes on. When I need to focus on something important I usually remove all other sticky notes.

I was glancing over it and out of no where this crazy idea struck me - to create a website that would let people have its homepage for a day.

The idea is to sell “days” by letting people have the homepage and replace it with their own image. The purpose is to try out this idea and experiment with it. Besides, I believe its fun and provides a good value to the users.

Hence I came up with The Day Site. I brushed dirt off my development tools after quite a long time and worked on the website for 4 straight days. In the process I managed to make some folks really mad  - as I was shut in my room working, eating or sleeping and ignoring all the rest.

Anyway, the idea behind The Day Site is very simple.

It lets you have its homepage for a day and allows you to upload an image (with a link to your website) to be displayed on that day instead. The homepage displays just your image for the entire day and nothing else!

Once the day ends your homepage is archived and becomes a part of the Internet Calendar. The day is permanently marked with your name (ofcourse your image) and is destined to be there forever.

The idea is challenging as well because there are only 365 days in an year. If it kicks in, the days are going to vanish pretty quickly so to keep the service interesting and attractive I am yet to work over some ideas. Hopefully some will accidentally drop in my brain …

So ladies and gentleman I present you: http://TheDaySite.com.

Please feel free to create an account, reserve a day and put up whatever amuses you most for it to become the ultimate homepage for that day!