Wesley, Dan, and my latest project has eclipsed everything else we've done over these past few months: Where My Friends Be?
The growth and press have been ridiculously exciting. As I write this, we have 30,000+ registered users and 3.25 million+ friends "mapped."
Here's my attempt to catalog all that's been written about us:
- Featured on Mashable. This started it all, and about 30 seconds afterwards our servers crashed. Hard. Here's Wesley's account of the ordeal, and we learned a ton about scalability and PR.
- Reposted to CNN.com
- Featured and interviewed on Seattle King 5 Evening News. This was a total surprise, and I had to skip class to run back to my dorm and get interviewed on Skype. Don't tell my profs.
- Posted by a French tech blog that led to many more French posts: here are a few... here's one in Turkish. And one in Japanese. There's a few in Spanish, but I can't find them right now...
- A post we're proud of for this quote: "there's a difference between getting there first, and doing it right."
- It's taken on a life of itself in the Twittersphere, check out this tag: #wheremyfriendsbe
- Very proud of this one: a post about our "nicest fail page ever"
- Dan has written a three-part gripping account of the whole experience.
Hopefully this is just the beginning!