Getting ready to launch!
Believe it or not we’re about ready to launch Amigo! The photo above is me doing 1:30am bug testing - gotta love it! I’m forcing myself to do almost all my testing in IE on a PC, as that will statistically be our largest user demographic.
We’re doing final tweaks, changes and testing. I’m really excited as it’s all starting to come together. We’re pushing hard because it needs to be live for The Future of Web Apps.
If you haven’t guessed, we’ve decided to move ahead, despite the trademark issues. We feel it would be detrimental to wait until it’s sorted out, as that could take months (maybe even a year or more).
If you applied for the Beta, don’t be offended if we didn’t contact you - we could only allow a few people in. Thanks for your help and excitement!
I can’t belive it’s almost ready, seems like only yesterday I was reading the first post.
It’s been really great reading this blog, and has provided me with a much better idea of how the world of making web apps works (something I want to go into myself), so thanks for doing it!
Hope the launch goes smoothly for you!
Comment by Richard Adams — August 24, 2006 @ 11:06 am
When it’s launched please keep us up to date with progress. This blog is a great insight into how things work and it would be a shame to lose it.
You look knackered BTW :)
Comment by Rob Mason — August 24, 2006 @ 11:15 am
Thanks guys! We’re excited too :)
Comment by Ryan Carson — August 24, 2006 @ 3:44 pm
At first I thought you looked really tired, then I read the post and realized you were using IE. That will truly age someone.
Comment by Sheldon Kotyk — August 24, 2006 @ 4:25 pm
Congrats! Well, almost congrats.
Thanks for sharing this experience with us.
It has proven valuable as I am right in the middle of doing my thing as well.
Rock on, and keep up the hard work!
H!
Comment by Hal! — August 24, 2006 @ 5:03 pm
Ryan - One thing needs to be answered, im sure you have thought of it, fradulent clicks?Its a novel idea but this cld get it down
To Gillian -
Pcking up from my last comment about testing service.
No i am not starting a testing service as yet it was just an idea i thought ill toss up here, i am into development and testing but i doubt if web 2 folks in west are evn ready to offshore web app development let alone testing as yet.
I have a suggestion here, for preventing click fraud but ill listen to what you guys plan to do first.
All the best with this one im sure it wld work
Comment by Adi — August 25, 2006 @ 3:07 pm
Thats a good point Adi, i was thinking about that the other day, what are you guys going to do about click fraud?
Comment by James Deer — August 26, 2006 @ 1:51 pm
Can you describe what you mean by click fraud?
Comment by Matt Carey — August 30, 2006 @ 12:08 pm
A basic example would be the publisher repeatedly clicking on the advertisement to raise money for themselves. Although there are more advanced ways of doing it which are alot harder to detect.
Comment by James Deer — August 30, 2006 @ 5:27 pm
Thanks James. Sounds like something you have to have pinned down pretty tightly.
Comment by Matt Carey — August 31, 2006 @ 12:26 pm