So late last night I flipped the little switch that made infogami.com appear to the public. I didn't tell anyone outside the apartment about it, but I sat and watched the access log to see if anyone would notice. Amazingly enough, a couple people did and I carefully watched their every move on the site to see how things went. Everything seemed to go OK and a couple more people came by (I don't know how they found out about it so quickly). After a little while, Steve updated the header on reddit.com to provide a subtle little hint and a bunch more came over and then one of them submitted it to Reddit, where it skyrocketed up the charts. As I went to bed, there were already a hundred sites, with new ones seeming every minute. As I write this, there are over a thousand, with the number continuing to grow -- ten were added just as I wrote this.

To be honest, I'm a little surprised by all the attention. This wasn't supposed to be a "launch". Infogami isn't done; in fact, I wouldn't even say it's "beta". Frankly, it's just at the point where it's barely usable. Normally, a company would toil away on the product in private for months, making sure it had all the right features, and then test it with a small group of people. But that didn't seem like much fun, so I decided to take a chance and do something different -- I decided to do the rest of developing it in public.

Unfortunately, people don't seem to have gotten the message. People keep asking why it doesn't have any features, how it's different from other software. Well, the answer's pretty simple: it's not done yet. In fact, it's hardly even started. We can't put all the interesting new stuff in it on day one. You'll have to check back later for that.

Of course, lots of people don't seem to mind. We've gotten some great emails from people who love the site and are excited to get to use it. I hope these people and others who are interested will stick with us and help us turn it into something great. I know I'm looking forward to it.

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And now, a more boring note. A bunch of people have complained that they haven't received their verification emails. I just added a little account page where you can see and change your email address and resend the verification email. There should be a link from the message asking you to check your mail, or you can visit http://yoursite.infogami.com/_account/ -- hope this helps and keep the feedback coming!

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