Adding and removing small features like a maniac

Ok, now a few knows about our service. And now we have some feedback. And the feedback makes us work hard.

This is really strange: When we opened the service, at that exact moment, I was available to see it from a new user's perspective. Before I was blinded to small or even bigger problems. Now I am able to be more critical and, well, realistic about the UI we have created. A lot of fixes done and a lot to do. Today we actually took the design we had already back in January, changing small details we have learned along the way.

There's a load of features on the TODO-list, but all in time. Which brings me to the motivation of this post. I want to share a small home-made video we created, visioning the illtags mobile service:

We're open, but don't tell anyone!

The service is open, feel free to test and explore it. We have a bit of server trouble, which is the reason you should not tell anyone about our service, yet :)

Now we're trying to test and learn what is the server capacity need for a certain amount of users.

Launching pre-alpha, waiting for revision 7000

Subversion revision is at 6852. Pre-alpha is ready, but so is H1N1, according to local newspapers.

I think the launch will in few days, maybe even tomorrow, but I'm not sure about our servers. We'll have to launch it very very silently, just for the important feedback and try to get a solid server base ASAP.

We would probably make it invite-only, but we're not really Gmail or Spotify. Besides, it's too much of a hazzle with the invitation e-mails.

Demo ready!

Buy me or Markus a beer and we'll show what we have managed to create :)

Or wait a few weeks and the service will be open for everyone. There's still a lot to do, but we try have the service up and running even as an early alpha before everyone has H1N1. Hopefully the Madonna concert next thursday is not the turning point in Finland. If I had paid 100 euros for the ticket, a small or a bit higher fever woudn't be enough to skip the concert...