Every now and then Gavin and I will spend a weekend teaching ourselves a new technology, basically by working on "something cool." We start projects, solve problems, examine market potential, code a little bit -- try to see if something is theoretically possible. Typical geeky entrepreneurial stuff I'm sure. It's a creative outlet of sorts. I can't speak for him on it, but I can't paint, can't sing, and suck at guitar. Creating software is one of the things that I do to address certain creative inclinations. I'm blessed in that my career is similar to my hobby, but it's not the same. All programmers need to work on their own stuff sometimes.
Anyway, coming up on a year ago, Gavin and I worked on a little side project to help people manage multiple resumes. Gavin was graduating from college, and I was working at a gig that while steady, wasn't the most exciting thing in the world. People are starting to discover it, and I thought it time that I start blogging about it. Here's the press blurb, ignore the multiple links, they're there simply to improve search engine traffic. And yes, we know "emurse" may look like a poor attempt at spelling "immerse", but it's a play on the letters in "resume." ;)
Emurse.com's mission is to improve your job hunt.
We believe that your job hunt is a continual process that starts with having an updated resume available at all times. Emurse allows you to easily create resumes and manage your existing ones. You can download them in any format instantly from anywhere in the world. Stay organized and save time by easily distributing your resumes directly from the site, keeping track of all their destinations and when they've arrived. When its time to update your resume, Emurse allows you to easily make a change to all of them simultaneously. We'll even help you turn your resume into a web page so potential employers can always have access to your most recent copy.
We're sporting about 200 users with close to 72% of them active. That's not bad considering we've never made any real marketing push. I imagine we'll start being more vocal about it now that the concept is starting to prove itself. We've gotten some tremendously positive feedback and tons of great suggestions. It's been fun.
You can actually see it in action on the top right of my blog, the resume links download straight from emurse. If you have a blog and are okay with mixing business and pleasure, try doing the same. I've been pleasently surprised at how well the resume has been indexed in google. It turns up in all sorts of job related searches now.
Anyway, check it out and let us know what you think.
UPDATE: We had a RAID controller fry in our DB server this morning. All is well now, and things should be humming along. 
I swear we didn't start Emurse to fill open positions at Netscape. In fact, Emurse existed before Gavin and I were even a twinkle in Weblogs, Inc's eye. Gavin used the Emurse organization tools when he was undergoing that same job hunt. 