We’re finally live on the App Store and Google Play! Today we sent the welcome email to everyone on the waitlist, after a few more beta testers had kicked the tyres first.
It’s been just over three months since I started this on a beach in Phuket, and after that first week I thought we would be live within a month. The engineering, the legal bits and the app store admin all had other ideas. But I’ve loved doing every part of it myself, from designing the database to writing a privacy policy to wrestling with app store listings, and it’s completely changed my sense of what a small team can build now. I also have a whole new respect for every engineer, designer and lawyer I’ve ever worked with.
So while this feels like the end of a slog, it’s probably just the beginning. We’ll be watching closely over the first few days: sign-ups, crashes and what people actually do. We’ve set up alerts for anything that breaks, so fingers crossed for silence.