Launch!

Posted on 2012/06/03 10:44:02 (June 2012).

[Wednesday 30th May 2012]
The project I've been working on for the last year or so launched today, and other than a couple of minor kinks it all went really well. The rollout took most of the day and mostly required my full attention, but by around 6pm everything looked pretty good, so the few of us that had stayed in London (most of the team had gone to California for the launch) decided that would be a good juncture to kick back and pop a couple of Champagne corks.

As always the run up to the launch had been quite stressful, lots of late nights and working at the weekends, and I'd been filled with anxiety about whether the whole thing will work, and how it's going to be received by the general public. With this kind of thing there's always so many moving pieces that some things just get forgotten about until it's very nearly too late, and the last couple of weeks have been filled with frantic last minute changes.

Now that the thing is launched I can breathe a big sigh of relief, not just because the end result does all seem to hang together pretty well (minus a couple of rough edges of course) but also because taking a step back I'm really proud of what we built. I think there's some fairly groundbreaking stuff in there and I hope people will find it genuinely useful.

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