It’s been a little quite on the Start Us Up! blog these days. Mainly because we’ve all been extremely focused on getting Geezeo built and launched. Well we’re still banging away on the the complete app (which is starting to really come together by the way), but in the mean time have launched Geezeo {Mobile}, which will make it easy for you to check your bank balances and available credit right from your mobile phone using text/sms. Geezeo {Mobile} is really simple to use so we hope you check it out. Sonny put together a fantastic screencast if you want a quick overview.

The SUP team decided we were going to join the masses (no pun intended) and get fit in 07. I know it’s kind of cliche, but you’re health is important, and when you’re launching a startup it’s critical. No time for down time…right?

After making the the decision to get in shape I knew I was going to need something to track my progress. So I set out for a web application that would allow me to track my weight, exercises activity and my monitor my nutrition. I first hit HappyCodr looking for a slick RoR app to manage my health and weight loss but came up short. Next I did a search on del.icio.us for the terms “health and “web2.0“. I always seem to go to del.icio.us these days when I’m looking for a cool product or a site to meet some need I have. I find that the items tagged by the user community are often on target and deliver relevant results. I guess that was the intention huh? Well my fist hit was traineo.

Traineo is a fantastic web application that allows you to set health goals, track your progress and set up motivators that are suppose to “encourage” you along the way. I have Shawn, Sonny (aka Patches O’Houlihan) and my wife Christine set up as motivators…the verdict is still out on who’s going to be the toughest motivator.

Traineo is designed incredibly well, it’s fun and easy to use and includes just the right mix features to help me personally achieve my goals. They ajaxed the hell out the the site (but not too much) which makes it incredibly easy to add and update data. A full review of traineo and other fitness trackers can be found at CenterNetworks if you’re interested in learning more.
Anyhow, check traineo out, and if you want to add one of us as motivator we’re there for ya…If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.

A few days ago we sent an email to the guys at 37signals to see if they would be interested in having HappyCodr be the official/unofficial showcase for sites developed in Ruby on Rails. Well yesterday we got an email from Dave informing us that he had written a post about HappyCodr and replaced the link on http://www.rubyonrails.org/applications to even more applications with a link to HappyCodr. Needless to say we’ve been pretty flat out getting all submissions listed. Sonny compared his efforts last couple of days to Jim Carrey’s character in Bruce Almighty when he was trying to answer the prayers on the computer… He answered all the prayers in his list only to find double the original amount had been submitted in the time it took him to answer the first ones.

We’re psyched to be showcasing all these fantastic sites on HappyCodr. It’s really amazing to see the work people are doing out there and especially cool to see the consistency in good design, quality and usability.

Some of the cool sites to check out:

Coastr A simple and free service for people who love beer

IIProperty Online Property Management Tools

TrebleNation A music community dedicated to connecting artists and venues

FizboFlorida A For Sale By Owner service in Florida designed to make home marketing painless and cheap

Looking forward to seeing more great applications hit the site!

Be Happy

We’re about 5 weeks from launching DebtFolio with our credit card module. Until go live, we’ve added a nice landing page for visitors to register for updates.