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Our invitations to private alpha hit mailboxes monday morning. If you haven’t already signed up, send an email to MakeMeATester at event-seek.com and we’ll send an invite your way. It should be pretty cool to see all the neat things we’ve been working on. It’s time, as they say, to ship the product. We set a deadline for ourselves and have stuck to that deadline.

We will deliver alpha on time.

Is every last piece of functionality we dreamed up for alpha included? No.

Are their bugs that we don’t know about? Surely.

Are there bugs that we do know about? You betcha.

Are their portions of the website that could and probably should work better? Uh Huh.

Do I wish I had several more weeks to go back to the development team and get this thing right? More than you know.

It is time, however, to ship the product. It will inevitably have errors, minor bugs and things we wished we noticed before the launch, but that is okay. That is sort of the idea of an alpha launch - put a stake in the ground and push yourselves to deliver. We could spend the next three months building the product, getting it perfect and you know how we would feel three days before launch? Exactly the same we feel now - wishing we had  more time to go tweak.

There is another incredible benefit to a private alpha launch - customers. We get to see in a real live working environment what the consumers use, what they like, and what they find difficult. The best product design comes from customers and we want to harness that. Sure they’ll dream up ideas we’ll never be able to complete anytime soon, but I’ll bet more than anything else, they’ll want the very features we want and help us shape what those features should look like.

Is my development team wary of what people will say? Yeah. Should they be? Maybe a little. Am I? Of course. Do the vast benefits outweigh the risks? Damn straight. It’s time for Event Seek alpha.

We may not yet be ready for prime time, but much like “Magnum,” the preview is still pretty breathtaking.

Posted by: Connor Fee

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