Yesterday me (Oleg) and Dmitry (our Art Director) performed at Startups Demo Night 2010, in Sunnyvale, CA.
To see everything on your own eyes you can watch this video:
It is the first pitch we've done for WaysGo and we are very excited about this! 8 start ups were presenting their ideas, and we were one of them. The point of our pitch was to share our vision with the present audience about future local search and Experts role in it. Although we've received a very good feedback from people and other participants, we think there is a lot of things we should work on. And first of them will be to perform not only in front of the IT crowd.
We want to take part in several events, where we can reach out to our Experts and share our vision and ideas with you, guys! We would rather be answering questions about how WaysGo can improve the internet experience and earning possibility for Experts, than questions like "how do we balance the server loadings".
By the way, if anyone knows about such kind of events that will happen in CA in the nearest time - let us know!
Nov 17, 2010
Nov 10, 2010
First Experts Are On Board!
This Monday we've initiated the email campaign, reaching out to our early adopters all over the country. We've selected about 10 000 people, who, as we think, could be interested in becoming Experts in WaysGo.
Right after the campaign was initiated, we started to receive first traffic, sign ups and, of course, lots of questions on our email. That was absolutely fantastic to read about impression of the first actual visitors. First Experts. At the moment, we have already more than 100 Expert profiles around the country and still counting.
As you've noticed, WaysGo is still on it's early stage. And we are working hard to make user experience better than it is. After receiving first feedback, we decided to upgrade the processes of creating and editing the Expert profile, writing reviews about businesses and more.
We have also worked a lot on the naming and grammatical errors, which happened in different places. We understand that the product has a totally new approach on Experts-to-Business relationships and needs to be explained more detailed. That is why we will create as much tutorials and explanations as possible in the future.
Once again, we would like to thank everyone, who responded on our invitation emails and payed interest to the service. We value your suggestions and proposals. All errors will be fixed and questions will be answered in this blog as FAQ.
If you would like to receive the latest information about updates and new functions - stop by to read this blog or follow as on Twitter or Facebook.
Stay unique!
Right after the campaign was initiated, we started to receive first traffic, sign ups and, of course, lots of questions on our email. That was absolutely fantastic to read about impression of the first actual visitors. First Experts. At the moment, we have already more than 100 Expert profiles around the country and still counting.
As you've noticed, WaysGo is still on it's early stage. And we are working hard to make user experience better than it is. After receiving first feedback, we decided to upgrade the processes of creating and editing the Expert profile, writing reviews about businesses and more.
We have also worked a lot on the naming and grammatical errors, which happened in different places. We understand that the product has a totally new approach on Experts-to-Business relationships and needs to be explained more detailed. That is why we will create as much tutorials and explanations as possible in the future.
Once again, we would like to thank everyone, who responded on our invitation emails and payed interest to the service. We value your suggestions and proposals. All errors will be fixed and questions will be answered in this blog as FAQ.
If you would like to receive the latest information about updates and new functions - stop by to read this blog or follow as on Twitter or Facebook.
Stay unique!
Nov 5, 2010
Launch, press release and server downs
Last couple of days were really filled up with events for our team and system itself.
First of all, on Thursday we have finally launched the full working version of WaysGo. As never before, this version embodies all the necessary functions for all user groups to work right. Users can share recommendations, Experts can write reviews and Businesses can activate feature approvals. Of course, there are still a lot of bugs and corrections we should work on further to make the product be "tasty". But appearance of this live, "full" version finally revealed the weak spots. And that is a huge step forward.
Also, our first official press release was published! It is dedicated to the launch and uncovers WaysGo's vision on the role of Experts in todays online world. We have received some feedbacks and even were picked up by several news resources such as Yahoo!News and SF Gate!
Of course, it would not be a "start up", if we didn't face some troubles. For example, our server has been down twice for the last two days. All database was erased and a back up version contained data of ten days ago... You know this situations when everyone's happy, but nobody's smiling?
Nevertheless, we all are very happy and proud because of these facts. It means that we have finally launched the product, and it's working. Next Monday we expect first visitors to start populating WaysGo. We are in a hurry of bringing in the furniture, supplying electricity, water and gas. Making final changes to exterior and decorate the interior. Arranging lamps, tables and chairs. And then, take a final look and smilingly say - "Welcome to WaysGo!"
First of all, on Thursday we have finally launched the full working version of WaysGo. As never before, this version embodies all the necessary functions for all user groups to work right. Users can share recommendations, Experts can write reviews and Businesses can activate feature approvals. Of course, there are still a lot of bugs and corrections we should work on further to make the product be "tasty". But appearance of this live, "full" version finally revealed the weak spots. And that is a huge step forward.
Also, our first official press release was published! It is dedicated to the launch and uncovers WaysGo's vision on the role of Experts in todays online world. We have received some feedbacks and even were picked up by several news resources such as Yahoo!News and SF Gate!
Of course, it would not be a "start up", if we didn't face some troubles. For example, our server has been down twice for the last two days. All database was erased and a back up version contained data of ten days ago... You know this situations when everyone's happy, but nobody's smiling?
Nevertheless, we all are very happy and proud because of these facts. It means that we have finally launched the product, and it's working. Next Monday we expect first visitors to start populating WaysGo. We are in a hurry of bringing in the furniture, supplying electricity, water and gas. Making final changes to exterior and decorate the interior. Arranging lamps, tables and chairs. And then, take a final look and smilingly say - "Welcome to WaysGo!"
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