Friday, July 16, 2010

Beta Testing Soon...

We haven’t had a new blog entry in over a week so we thought we should update you guys on what’s going on with the site and some the changes we decided to do.


First off the beta opening is going to be coming up very soon! We been working hard spreading the news about MyLifeRank and so far we had some good reviews from both journalists and internet gurus. But the main concern they have is and I’m sure most of you guys reading this blog also have is without trying out the site it’s hard to see how the site is going to flow and how it’s going to work in practice. So we decided to hold off on the mobile app and challenges for now and concentrate all our efforts in getting the site complete so that we may open it up for beta testing. The beta testing will be interesting, we of course want as much feedback as we can from the beta testers but also we don’t want to overload the server, so we will be limiting the number of available spots. The beta testing will include our friends, family, and invites for journalists, internet gurus (vcs), and invites from either party.

If you want to be added on the mailing list for beta testing, email us at MLRCreators@gmail.com.

Now we mentioned we are going to hold off on the mobile app and challenges and you might be asking why, well the main reason is time. The mobile app is going to be a huge part of MyLifeRank and we are certainly not giving up on it but due to the complexities of getting challenges to work with the mobile app which includes all of our location based features, we decided to hold off until we went to beta first. Our main priorities at this point is getting the beta out so we are able to gather information from the users on how everything feels and flows and hopefully gather some interest from VCs and investors. If we achieve what wanted with the site and with gathering interest from investors, then its full speed ahead for MyLifeRank. If not, then we will have to sit down and relook at what needs to be changed and what we might have done wrong.

In terms of the site design, we originally started out with a cartoonish style layout with the graphics because we felt it would give the site a more “game-like” feel. We now decided that we are going to polish things up a little bit with more professional style layout and we must say it looks much better. We showed our new title banner to a couple of close friends and it blew their minds  Just from the simple title banner change, the site feels a lot more polished already. As time goes on and we replace all the graphics with more professional looking graphics, we believe we will “wow” the world when we go into beta testing.

That’s all for now, be sure to sign up for beta testing so your one of the first ones and have a nice weekend!

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