It was enevitable. The day would come when I would have to talk to people again. I hoped I’d maybe get another month or two. even just the rest of October. But I guess you cant win em all. Sigh. Though on the plus side its Oktoberfest tonight - and I have been pumped since I got up.
On the docket for next week: Book my next valley trip, kick-off university outreach, hopefully contribute some code.
So its going to be a working Thanksgivings for me this year. We have a very excited and super awesome hacker from Raleigh coming to visit and I’m gonna try my best to show him a good time while he is here! Beyond that I have about a billion emails from our investor and user updates last week that need my attention.
Up next: Week o’ meetings, brainstorming for parts improvements, and a little bit of networking.
Ever have one of those days? You know when your brain leaks out your ears… You are totally sapped. Spent. All you wanna do is stare at the wall? Or sleep? Well I kinda feel like that today. And in the words of a dear friendof mine: ptttbbbbbb (the noise it makes when you stick out your tounge and blow). On the plus size tons of progress on curation, import, notifications and analytics. On the downside I’m sleepy and pretty much done for the week. So I guess until next time. haha.
On the slate for next week: launching a bunch of features we have ready to go, and turning back on the work on PCBs and Gerbers.
Zzzzzzzzzzzz.
I mean what a good looking bunch right? Lady slayers all. Its been another crazy week. Meetings this time, lots and lots of meetings. Probably inevitable, and at least I might got some real work done this weeked. But the smiles… There are so damn many smiles in the office you can’t help but feel like we’ve done a good thing. Its a pretty speical feeling watching someting you’ve built add value to peoples lives. Very, very cool.
Top of the list for next week: User feature requests, Payments, Finish notifications.
How cool is it to be changing the world?
What a week! We launched. We saw thousands of new users. We hacked. We bug fixed. We frantically kept the site alive. We slept in shifts in case stuff went bad. We got some incredible press. And its all still happening. I’m just landing in New York. No sleep. Another day of hacking and talking and trying to change the world….
Top of the list for next week: Bro gets married tomorrow, Get our house in order (ie. ops, cleanup, and support), Retention & analytics & notifications
And then maybe I’ll get some sleep…
Wow. I can belive its time. What a weeek. I’m starting to feel a little crappy. We are all totally sapped. And we can’t help but keep pushing. We can’t help but hustle just a little bit more…
Top of the list for next week:
And then back for my first family wedding ever!
This week, is the week before we officially launch Upverter. Its been a long haul. A little over 54 weeks of hard work and unbelievible dedication. We’ve had our share of failures, and a few successes, and hopefully we’ve learned enough from our last few soft launches that we are actually at a point where people will get excited about what we’ve built, instead of just our potential… Fingers crossed!
Top of the list for next week:
And then off to Sillicon Valley to make some noise…
Many appologies are due to the handful of you that kept up on my progress, and cared (or were bored) enough to read my blog. I missed you during my hiateous, and I’m sorry. It was hard for me to stop writing, but at the time I was in a bad place, and I was doing work that I couldnt really write about - which made it all that much harder to maintain my blog where I used to ramble my thoughts and feelings at the world… But that time has passed. And work is going great. And I’m in a better place now. And for lack of another way to say it I’m back, hopefully for the indefinate future.
So stay tuned!
I’m going to be offline for the next little bit. Today I’m heading back home to Canada-land, and I’m pretty excited about it!
He is way more excited than i am…
It feels like I just got here. And I really just did. But today is the last day of school, and I’m a little bummed out that its over already. It has been just incredible meeting everyone and working with such smart people. So many ideas, and so much brilliance. I’m going to miss this soo much. I have a lifetime worth of stories to share once we launch the Upverter tools, and so much to write about. But for now, I guess all I can say is its sad that its over. I’m going to miss it.
