A working demo

We reached a major milestone this week. We have a working demo of Loopnote!!!! It’s hard to believe that we’ve been working on Loopnote for almost a year. We actually have to renew our domain registrations! We’ve come a long way. This week we all got to play around with the system a bit and it’s great. We can now register for accounts and verify our email, phone, and IM accounts. We can also create and subscribe to topics. We each created test topics and sent out various test alerts (notes). I’m happy that messages via mobile are being delivered quickly. A few months ago we tested messages to the Sprint network and realized that messages could take up to 3 hours sometimes. This past week all our messages were delivered in a minute or less, so that’s promising.

if you haven’t been keeping up with other posts then let me quickly recap what Loopnote is all about. Loopnote is social alerts. People create topics of interest and let others subscribe to those topics. Messages (notes/alerts) get sent out and delivered via mobile, IM, Email or RSS. We envision topics created around specific areas of interests like entertainment, clubs, commercial promotions, etc.

At this point we’ve got plenty more work to do. We’re cleaning up the interface and getting some of the user flow through the site better organized. By the end of the month we’re going to start inviting some of our first beta users to start using the product! We’re very excited (in case you couldn’t tell). For those of you who’ve signed up to be Beta users, rest assured you’ll be hearing from us very soon - thank you for being so Patient. By the way, we have more than 1,000 people signed up… The large majority of that has been accomplished using minimal marketing, just posting our site on a couple web 2.0 directories.

We’re also all very excited about having a launch party. It sounds a bit presumptuous to say “launch party” but after all the effort we’ve put into the product, we feel it’s very well deserved. If you live in Denver and are interested in joining us drop us a line (pictures will be posted).

Almost there!