Yep, we’ve been TechCrunched. This is old news by now, at least at the rate the blogopshere is moving, but still bears repeating. Lots of positive comments, so I guess we’re on to something good.
As Michael says, “The site is a bit raw and unstable”. After all, it started from a small project to scratch an itch, to solve a problem I had. For a while, I ran it on my computer, checking for new comments every morning, before I realized it begs to be shared with more people.
How many more people? It grew from two to ten, and then Scoble and MetaFilter posted about it … and the server crashed. The rest of the week was an excercise in patience, as it was barely keeping up with the load. It took a few more weeks to get things straightened up.
Last week it was finally getting ready for prime time. I’m glad to see it’s managing well so far, but then you’d expect that from open source technologies.
And the more people use it, the better feedback we get to keep improving. I especially like Michael’s suggetions:
As co.mments evolves, there are a number of features I’d like to see added. First is a way to tag posts while bookmarking them for easier search later, as well as grouping with other users’ bookmarks by tag. There also should be more social aspects in general – for example, I’d like to know if others (and who, and how many) are also tracking a post.
One unavoidable issue – you can’t hit the bookmark button unless you are on the permanent URL for a post. Just being on Techcrunch.com, for example, won’t work. A nice feature would be a drop down list of all posts that are included on a URL (which would be easy to do by looking at the RSS for a page) if you aren’t on the permanent URL page for a post.
All better ways to help you stay on top of the conversations. That’s the official co.mments moto. And yes, there will be more great stuff coming down the road.
Reposted from co.mments.