Launch Reactions
I thought it would be a good idea to recap what we've learned and experienced now that it's been a week.
After being open only a week and without publicly announcing the launch to anyone except the few beta testers via email and by writing on this blog, we think we've made some great progress. We're in the thousands by any of the major statistics (users, files, tags, hits/day, etc).
We spent much of Monday on the del.icio.us/popular page, which contributed to over 15,000 hits that day. That also spawned quite a bit of blog posting.
One thing that's particularly amazing is the internationalization of our users. We saw blog postings in Japanese, Spanish, Hindi (I think? -- can anyone translate?), Russian, Chinese, and Portuguese. Pretty awesome for just 7 days.
Another thing that's really amazing is the amount of help and support we've received. Maurice and I have each received numerous emails about bug reports, feature requests, or simply "you're doing X, I thought you'd do Y." Some people, such as Bin, have even been helping to develop tools (like the Openomy Ruby bindings) -- that's great!
But, with all these successes, we've also had a few mistakes. The server has died twice now -- only for a few hours, but that's still not good enough. We won't even begin to think about charging for premium services until all issues like that are worked out.
We've also learned a lot about writing really thorough and easy to read documentation. Some people have written us asking questions that should have been answered by the API documentation. We think it's getting better now though.
So, all in all, things are going great. It seems as though people really enjoy Openomy and think the future looks very bright. Heck, even Paul Graham seems to think so in his latest essay on Web 2.0.
After being open only a week and without publicly announcing the launch to anyone except the few beta testers via email and by writing on this blog, we think we've made some great progress. We're in the thousands by any of the major statistics (users, files, tags, hits/day, etc).
We spent much of Monday on the del.icio.us/popular page, which contributed to over 15,000 hits that day. That also spawned quite a bit of blog posting.
One thing that's particularly amazing is the internationalization of our users. We saw blog postings in Japanese, Spanish, Hindi (I think? -- can anyone translate?), Russian, Chinese, and Portuguese. Pretty awesome for just 7 days.
Another thing that's really amazing is the amount of help and support we've received. Maurice and I have each received numerous emails about bug reports, feature requests, or simply "you're doing X, I thought you'd do Y." Some people, such as Bin, have even been helping to develop tools (like the Openomy Ruby bindings) -- that's great!
But, with all these successes, we've also had a few mistakes. The server has died twice now -- only for a few hours, but that's still not good enough. We won't even begin to think about charging for premium services until all issues like that are worked out.
We've also learned a lot about writing really thorough and easy to read documentation. Some people have written us asking questions that should have been answered by the API documentation. We think it's getting better now though.
So, all in all, things are going great. It seems as though people really enjoy Openomy and think the future looks very bright. Heck, even Paul Graham seems to think so in his latest essay on Web 2.0.
5 Comments:
Is there a location on your wiki where you are discussing security issues?
I have particular issues with the permanent file identifier, etc. as it relates to snooping.
Hey anonymous,
I would also shoot you an email reply, but I can't since you didn't leave it. Sorry.
That's a really good point about security issues -- it should definitely have its own wiki page (it doesn't currently). Right now it's sort of built-in to the other pages, like How Web Apps Work and How Non-Web Apps Work.
As far as the "permanent file identifier," I'm not sure I understand what you mean. My guess is that you mean how a file can be accessed via the web site by its id? This doesn't really affect snooping because in order to access it, you must be logged in.
I do concede, however, that because there is no SSL there is a possibility for snooping -- this is something on our list (that is, implementing SSL).
Or, maybe you're talking about a permanent file identifier with regards to the APIs -- but, in that case, I'm not entirely sure what you mean. Downloading files on the APIs has a timeout, just a few seconds are allowed before the download must start. You must also sign your request to download, meaning the application must identify itself.
Either way, I guess I'm just confused on what you're asking.. Maybe some clarification, please?
Thanks,
Ian
not Hindi. It's Thai
Hey thanks basicsharp,
I was wondering that. :)
Any idea what it says?
Ian
Hey, I'm blogmaster of eb1og :)
I said that Openomy is the tag based online storage service.
Sorry for my English :D
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