Allow me to give a short introduction of the projects I’ll be working on in the next six months. Counting this blog, there are seven total projects I’ll be splitting my time between, three of which are already “live,” and four of which are yet to be revealed. To start with, I’m focusing entirely on web-based projects, since websites don’t require a lot of money to run (I’m paying $12 per month for decent hosting). The primary commitment required for a website is time, which I now have 40 hours a week of.

Active Projects
In addition to this blog, there are two other projects that are already up and running:

Seattle Bubble
Seattle Bubble is a real estate blog focused on the Seattle area. I started it in August 2005, and since then traffic has grown to over 3,000 visitors and over 10,000 page views per day, and currently has three active contributors. Although the blog began with a focus on the “real estate bubble,” it has evolved into more of a broad focus, basically providing analysis, news, and commentary about the local real estate market.

I’ll be continuing to update Seattle Bubble with daily posts, as I also work to add more useful and interesting features such as extended market analysis, commentary, interactive maps, etc.

Priced Out Forever
Priced Out Forever is another real estate website, but rather than focusing in specifically on Seattle, it casts a wider net, looking at real estate in a more general and theoretical sense. The site came online in the Spring of 2006, just as the real estate bubble was peaking. The main body of the site addresses general market principles, specifically the concept of being “priced out forever” (hence the name).

Most of the work on Priced Out Forever will be coming up with interesting content to update the blog at least a couple times a week, and hopefully adding the occasional piece to the “more” section.

Unreleased Projects
I’m going to be sparing with the details about projects that I haven’t actually gone live with yet, for what I assume would be obvious reasons. However, I will be updating the progress of each project as I go along, so here’s a vague introduction of each of the other projects, referred to by their code names.

Project Artichoke
Project Artichoke is a content site, similar to Seattle Bubble or Priced Out Forever in that I will be updating it with fresh content at least weekly. It will be locally focused, and the current schedule is to bring it online sometime in April.

Project Madison
Project Madison is a service-oriented site, where the functionality of the site is the primary draw, rather than fresh content. It will require a lot of research and development to get off the ground, but assuming the framework is well thought out, once it’s up and running it shouldn’t require a large ongoing time commitment. Due to the large amount of work required, Project Madison is scheduled to come online in July.

Project Pubblefish
Project Pubblefish is a group project that I’ve been working on for some time now with a few friends. It’s also service-oriented, and we hope to have it in “public beta” within a few months. Most of the time I have put into this project has been on evenings and weekends. I’ll be spending at least some of the regular work week on this one, but also continuing to work evenings with my partners on this one.

Project Sahara
Project Sahara is a will be populated with fixed content, and will sell a series of products related to the site. This is a project I’ve had on the back burner for a couple of years now, and although the money-making potential isn’t extremely high, it’s something I still really want to do. I’m planning to have Project Sahara live in April, around the same time as Project Artichoke.

So there you have it. Is seven projects too many to take on in six months? I guess we’ll find out!