I know, I know, I shouldn’t tease. But today has been incredible.
Working in a startup, the pace of change is rapid to say the least. One week you’re tackling a major drama, the next thinking about the future of the company, the next pulling reports that feel almost mundane to focus on the here and now. On the software side of things, work veers wildly from quick fixes, to long term new feature development, to rapid deployment of cosmetic tweaks, to load balancing, to support. You name it, the dev team handles it.
With Ted out of the picture for the past 10 days though we’ve had a chance to regroup. That guy is a dynamo of ideas and energy, and we fight to keep up with him most of the time, and fight to contain him the rest. For the past 10 days though we’ve focussed on stability, fixing a slew of long term bugs and getting PayPerPost.com to the most stable it’s ever been. It’s also given us a chance to think about the future and start work on it.
There’s something breathtaking about actually sitting down with some guys, shooting around some ideas, trying some code then suddenly realizing what you have in your hands is the future not only of the entire company, but of the Internet as a whole. Sounds grand doesn’t it, but the World Wide Web was the brainchild of one man, Tim Berner’s Lee. We’re in an industry where just one incredibly smart person can have a profound effect on the whole world. We’ve got 10 incredibly smart people writing code here.
We’ve come up with some things that are going to turn certain parts of the industry completely on their head. We’ve been thinking about these things for a while now, but now we’ve had a chance to try the ideas out, to actually write code and see what happens. The results are simply staggering.
It’s like when those people on the Antiques Roadshow hand over some tiny curio for valuation, then suddenly hear it’s worth 10 million bucks for something they thought was just a neat little gizmo. We’ve got a whole case full of those curios.
I guarantee you right now that the PayPerPost you know and love today is a mere shadow of the PayPerPost that’s coming. The second year of this business looks like it’s shaping up to be heart stoppingly incredible.
To coin a phrase “Insanely Great”
