Success!

One of the two products I'm working on had its first deployment to people who we hadn't met and nurtured last weekend. We've spent a bit of time looking at logs and the conclusion is: It worked! OK, there's a couple of bugs to fix, a couple of performance tweaks we could make, someone wants a new feature and we still have a big enough backlog to keep us occupied. But, as a proof of concept, it gives us a lot more confidence; as the start of something that grows through user network effects we can be relieved; and we're starting to get publicity: nice pieces at Stuff and CNet.