Seriously, though. We sign up for how many *beta* sites on a daily basis? “In beta” used to mean “beta testers” were the only ones using it and were required to give feedback. There are so many beta flakers out there now (shamefully, I was doing that.) developers aren’t getting the feedback they need.

You know, though, it kinda hard when EVERYONE says they’re “in beta.”

Anyway, all the best, Josh
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CP

I was excited the day your book arrived in the mail last week. I devoured it over the course of the next couple of days. It’s economically written: chock full of ideas with no filler. Refreshing!

Every time I had a new idea, I stopped to write it down in my notebook. I now have pages and pages of ideas to think about and maybe implement. Once I’ve made a dent in my list I plan to read the book cover-to-cover again.

I really appreciate and am excited to have a formal framework to design within. I stumbled into this field about a year ago, got lucky with the right timing for an idea and some basic design principles, and almost overnight had a community of 300,000 users to manage. The whole thing has been an experiment – most of my decisions have been based on intuition, and I’ve not always been correct! Certain ideas in the book really resonated with things I’ve observed and learned.

My biggest disappointment was that there wasn’t more to read, especially since as a devotee of your blog, I felt like I’d been exposed to a lot of the ideas.

Keep writing!

I’m not sure if you intended to reach a broader focus, but I keep drawing parallels to my own budding philosophies as a business owner and much of the design specific stuff relates to how I design–social or no.

Great book so far!

I’m doing some high-level work on a semi-social application, and the book delivers a huge amount of high quality grist for the mill.