Traction is the ‘it’ word for startups.
I think we’re going to get a lot of traction. We’re just getting started. Hopefully I’m right.
It will also be clear if we’re not getting traction, and then, the thing to figure out is why?
I encourage all my loyal blog readers (you know who you are) to contribute some comments.
We have a little discussion going on right now about whether to call what we have ‘alpha’ or ‘beta’. It’s clear that a lot’s going to change in the next 2 months - but we also have code that doesn’t crash and seems to work pretty well.
So - what’s better from a marketing perspective? alpha or beta? We don’t want to scare people off with ‘alpha’, but we also don’t want to let people think that this service is close to being done with ‘beta’.
I actually think ‘beta’ will win. We’ll see…
Development is non-linear - just because we spend time on something doesn’t mean that the ‘visible’ results are improving in direct proportion.
We had a tough week. It’s now 4:30am. But it looks like we are on target to have a build on our production site. We had to do some ‘clean up’ on our build.
Again, it’s interesting how there are always more things to fix to get an app to a decent level to show other people. And if they think it sucks, well, then there’s even more to do!