Startup Weekend Boston

And in a final push dev has released ver.1.0 of DeskHappy to the masses.

Be sure to head to http://www.deskhappy.com and check it out.

Special thanks goes to Andrew for organizing this. Jason from Axom Labs for the event location. Gwen for the awesome idea and everyone who showed up this weekend. It was a great time and everyone should be proud to be the 2nd SW to launch a product!

We’ll see you at the next SW for sure!

Post Number 102 btw.

We’re tying it all together now and then we’ll release this beast to the world. We’ve got Jake plugging the design into our Ruby code and we’ve got some others working on the email functionality and Ben combing over things and making sure we’re good to go.

I was just told that Dev has made over 80 revisions to the code in one day. That’s pretty damn impressive if you ask me and it’s a testament to the level of coders we have here at the weekend.

They are dedicated to getting a clean product out there for everyone to use during the beta. From what I’ve seen this beta should be pretty clean and should not need a complete overhaul of coding when launching publicy in the coming months.

Ben just informed me that we’re pushing the final 8 videos for the application and it’s at about 30% at the time of this post. Videos are the integral portion of the application and it’s great to know that these huge parts are finally being put into place. With a little over 50minutes left the big items getting put up on the server is a great indication of the fact that we’re going to be the second SW group ever that launched a product within the weekend.

There is one hour left to Startup Weekend Boston. At 11pm we’ve either got a product done or we don’t. It’s game time and crunch time. 60 passes of the second hand and we call it a day. Is it going to happen? You make the call. You should know by now that I fully believe we are launching a product at 11pm.

Just got word that the newest version of DeskHappy has been pushed to the server. Email functionality is now being tested and the design is being plugged in. Next update will be the completed design and the one after that will be the final push.

There are about 5 quick items left to the todo list and we’ll be launching! Updates are coming fast!

It’s 3-1 Sox. Kind of a bummer but they are doing awesome and so are we. I’ve just been told that the launch is imminent and that Dev is almost ready for the final push!

Invites and Sign-up emails are now working is the news I just heard from the Dev Team. They’re testing it now just to make sure everything is kosher but this is a huge deal for the Dev team and hurdle that’s finally been jumped over.

Dev team energy is amazing right now. I’m asking myself why I have not been in this room from the start.

I’m sitting with Dev’s working out some design flaws, etc. We’re working them all so we can launch in the next hour or so if all goes well. It seems the design changes are small enough to work with yet large enough that if left unchanged could bork a few items. Anyways, we are busting our ass and the nose is to the grind stone.

Christina & I are brainstorming the look and feel of the blog and we’ll be making the blog look like the site in the next couple of days. There will be some subtle changes obviously to accommodate posts and other content not generally found on the website.