I was just reading an interesting post on Coding Horror about iterating quickly and it got me thinking about all the iterating we’re doing on Socialping. Granted we’re a small company and have been given the opportunity to make dozens of changes without having to support a previous version or transition data, there’s still a lot to be said about the speed that things are changing.
So, here’s an update: By now we’ve finished most of the API and we’ve got a new back-end in testing that is going to hopefully support us much better than the old setup did (for the nerds reading this, we’re using MongoDB for our tweets, Redis for a few things that need really fast access times, and MySQL for the account info).
At this point we’re still planning on rolling out a retrofitted version of the site using our new API instead of it having direct access, I think we are going to be doing more changes to the code than I anticipated, and thus there are likely going to be a few things that in fact, totally new.
I’m starting to get a bit of “can’t wait to release it” excitement because finally a number of the pieces are starting to talk to each other. Just a few more talking pieces and we’ll have our MVP out and we’ll get to start iterating on it while you guys are trying to break it. Exciting stuff.
Want to help us break it when it comes out? Register for the beta here.
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Ahhhh, it’s been a month or more and no updates from SocialPing. I’m getting mighty frightened.
How are things going guys?
Still rooting for you over here!
Best,
-Joshua Guffey
We probably should do an update. Sorry about the lack of updating, we are so busy it’s not even funny. I can say without a doubt that we are within weeks of opening up to our beta users again. Just as a minor assurance, we’ve got not one, but two LiveConference events next week.
Crap. Missed your conferences.
Still on schedule buddy?
Sorry to be a hassle. Just really miss the service. :-/