Startup Weekend Boulder

Gambit visits for the launch

Posted on Jul 08, 2007 @ 11:29 pm in video, weekend

Gambit the Hedgehog just stopped by in anticipation of the launch.

Gambit visits for the launch from David Cohen and Vimeo.

Animated banners

Posted on Jul 08, 2007 @ 10:50 pm in weekend

You asked for animated banners. We delivered. It’s almost magic.

Banner ads for you

Posted on Jul 08, 2007 @ 09:58 pm in weekend

Please stick a banner ad on your site and link it to vosnap.com. Thanks, we’d appreciate it.

Link to us. We deserve it.

Midnight or bust….

Posted on Jul 08, 2007 @ 09:14 pm in weekend

It was just announced that we’ll put vosnap out there at midnight. Of course, it won’t be perfect, but we think it will do what it’s supposed to do. Then we’re all going home to sleep. 3 hours to go!

8:30 meeting

Posted on Jul 08, 2007 @ 09:00 pm in weekend

SMS and email sending and receiving are working (one minor glitch with SMS). Basic UI is in place, but we’re told it won’t be “nit pick perfect” tonight. We’re expecting another working private beta in less than an hour.

There was a great discussion about how the company will move forward. From a show of hands, about 30 folks want to remain active in the company after the weekend. They effectively want to bootstrap it, and keep things rolling by meeting 2-3 times per week and handling email, bug fixes, etc as necessary.

5:30 Meeting

Posted on Jul 08, 2007 @ 05:40 pm in weekend

Working prototype?

Yay!

3 tests sent live, we are rolling.

The flying wombat

Posted on Jul 08, 2007 @ 03:24 pm in photos, weekend

Go ahead, zoom in. You know you want to.

Startup Weekend fans are night owls.

Posted on Jul 08, 2007 @ 12:50 pm in weekend

Visitors to this blog by time of day yesterday. You night owls you.

Then, here’s visitors to vosnap.com by time of day over the last couple of days. Everybody starts playing at 8:00am:

12:30 meeting

Posted on Jul 08, 2007 @ 12:40 pm in weekend

We’re expecting another alpha refresh at 130p here.

Some interesting stats:

Startup Weekend has 4000 unique visitors so far, 1800 on Saturday alone. 100k hits to the web site in total.

Vosnap has 200+ early registrations for launch notification, 1800 unique visitors, and 104 unique referrers to the site.

Lessons Learned

Posted on Jul 08, 2007 @ 11:53 am in weekend

For me yesterday was the day of the excitement (this idea is working!), today is the day of the lesson learned.

Simply put, at the 10:30 meeting I screwed up, big time.

The pressure is on, and if something doesn’t work in such a short period of time, people (like me) start wondering ‘what happens if we don’t launch?’  I jumped the gun with bringing up a backup plan, suggesting a change of a little thing called a ‘platform.’  Huge change, too late, with bad communication with the people that it affected.  Whoops, damn and seriously my fault.  I have talked to all the groups and we are back on the right track.

12 hours until launch and the ‘breakthrough’ hasn’t happened.  It is close, and everything besides one little piece has exceeded my expectations.  We are working on that little piece, and I am excited about a launch.

We now have a solution that is going to work really well.  The devs are doing some amazing work, and I am back to being the happiest guy in the room.

Some great work is going on!  Lesson learned.

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