We're bubbling...

The last three months will probably never been forgotten amongst the people that have put this Alpha release together. We’ve assembled a team of around 20 people from at least 12 different cultures, and we’ve managed technically to develop something which is truly cutting edge. Most importantly, we’re doing something which we feel will benefit families who use Kindo.

So now we’re ready to release it to people we trust in order to get valuable user feedback.

Living and breathing what we’re doing every day sometimes means that often we don’t see the wood for the trees. Having people external to our team try out what we’re doing then give us feedback, is such a valuable process, and we’re hoping that it will help us to discover new bugs, problems, and cultural differences that will enable us to give our users something truly exciting. Of course, we are already aware of many bugs, but having our friends and family help us to find more is both important and rewarding. We like to think of it as continually polishing our masterpiece.

We’d really appreciate your feedback, suggestions, bug reports, and ideas.

To do that we’ve created this area we’re calling “Pregnant” to discuss everything related to what we’re doing, because we want to keep things real. We’re hoping that as we grow and develop Kindo further, you’ll help us to make the right decisions about what features we add, and tell us what you think we’re perhaps doing the wrong way.

After all, we’re only people, and we’re making the assumption that getting things right for families around the world is going to be an interactive process involving other people from all over the world!

As such, please note that this Alpha release:

1. is primarily about bug squashing
2. has many other features and branding that is in progress - what you see now is not entirely what will be launched to the public
3. is for a few people to keep things private for now
4. will probably help us to discover more bugs, so your data might be deleted. This is good because it will help us make family tree builder better
5. wont send emails to people you add to your tree, yet!

Welcome to the family!

Posted by Gareth in Development, Family, Team, Web | Trackback |