Edo van Royen

An application which helps webmasters optimize traffic and revenue by showing visitors the content they were looking for in the first place. With Linkvive's redirection system 404 errors are a thing of the past.

Milestones

14-10-2007

Idea for a 404 error corrector generated in a IM conversation with Alexander van Hoorn.

12-03-2008

Created a pitch, and had a chat with Adriaan Mol. He was excited, and we decided to partner up. Decided on cool slogan: "404 no more"

03-04-2008

Follow up meeting with Adriaan @ his office, decided on roles etc.

28-04-2008

We decided upon the name: Linkvive. A combination of the words Link and Revive. Immediately claimed the domainnames.

12-05-2008

Went to the chamber of commerce and officially registered Linkvive.

02-07-2008

Functional model for Linkvive written.

12-07-2008

Briefing for logo design send to Dirk Leys, the same designer that designed the Spudu logo. I was very satisfied back then, decided to let him do another.

15-07-2008

Requested a quote of all the programming work needed to be done. Ernst van der Weijden was our man.

13-08-2008

Logo was selected out of three designs. The chosen design can be viewed at the top of this page, this was the noteworthy second:

20-08-2008

Google developed an almost identical concept. We were lucky not to have started programming.

06-10-2008

We decide to continue with a slightly altered approach with a different programmer. A friend of mine with which it all started in an IM conversation, Alexander van Hoorn, agrees to do the programming for Linkvive and partners up with us.

12-10-2008

Dirk Leys, the designer of the logo, agrees do all the design work.

17-10-2008

First website design by Dirk:

12-12-2008

Presentation on Linkvive, its marketing and its businessmodel at school

18-01-2009

Website design overhaul, can be seen in the screenshot at the top of this page.

28-01-2009

After much deliberation, we decided to switch strategies. Linkvive wasn't to be a downloadable application anymore, but a web-service that crawls the index of links for you. (To determine the best matches in redirecting visitors on 404 pages, and index of available pages needs to be made). This means we need to find a new programmer that can write a complex application like this.

06-03-2009

Peter Robinett together with Markus Törnqvist will start developing the webservice.

26-08-2009

After a long break, and after experiencing lots of difficulties in developing the crawler, development is continued with Markus.

17-12-2009

Finally, after a gruesome 2 years of Google having something similar causing us to have to redefine our strategy, switching between 4 different programmers, and problems with crawling, we decide to push a first Minimum Viable Product. Far from being perfect, but it became time we actually tested how the concept plays out and how much of a market need there is. In retrospect, it seems crazy to have put this much effort into a hypothesis which is untested.
Should have done this much earlier, we aren't even sure if people want to pay for this!