Week 10 - T'was the week after Echelon
Note: Apologies in advance for the delayed post, we've been having a few unstructured days punctuated by meetings over the last week and this blog has been in draft-mode for a few days now.
So Echelon has been done and dusted with, and while we had a great time (and Andy's posted an Echelon 2010 retrospective), we went quickly back to work beginning Wednesday evening last week. One of the great benefits of demoing your product over and over again to people, is learning about the various points of friction first-hand, and we got down to fixing them as soon as possible. We also got some very interesting questions and feedback from Echelon-attendees and they've all gone up as issues on GitHub. A lot of the conference attendees were quite impressed with our progress over the last 9 weeks and this has given further motivation to kick-ass and and march forwards to our next deadline - which is public beta launch in the first week of July. Echelon also gave us an opportunity to meet quite a few people who are avid readers of Naked Startup and it was great to meet you all, and we thank all of you for your kind words and encouragement!
Andy and I also spent some time spring cleaning which we'd been putting off for a while, as well as fixing some edge cases we'd discovered leading up to the demo.
Friday last week also gave us the opportunity to meet with the CEO/All-in-All of RedSports.sg. We had a great time discussing school sports, football and life in general as well as the trials and tribulations of a bootstrapped company. We managed to show off Gameplan to him as well, and he was quite impressed with our work.
We've already begun on knocking off the remaining todo's on our list, before we can go live and today was a welcome return to pair-programming and more kick-ass features.
For those of you who weren't at Echelon or who couldn't catch our demo, here's a little sneak-peek at our product (Please note Gameplan is still under heavy construction, and furniture is still being moved around very rapidly):
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Stats 6 issues closed on GitHub, 67 features in total leading to a current total of 3792 lines of code and 7647 lines of test code with a code-to-test ratio of 1:2.0
