Hot Potato : developed & run by some friends in brooklyn. good people.
use it.
pass the word around.
Friday was really exciting for the whole team at Hot Potato. We launched at the Techcrunch Realtime CrunchUp and got some nice coverage from Techcrunch, Silicon Alley Insider, and VentureBeat, amongst others. We’d like to thank everyone for their support and kind words. Perhaps most importantly, we’d like to emphasize that hotpotato.com (and our forthcoming iPhone application) represent version 0 of Hot Potato and we’re already hard at work making both incremental improvements to hotpotato.com and the iPhone app. We really appreciate your feedback (there’s a nice thread running here: http://htp.to/7zXYEW ). You can reach us by clicking the support link on the side of the page anywhere on hotpotato.com. We’re also @HotPotatoHQ on Twitter.
In the spirit of transparency, our focus over the next 24 hours or so is in the following categories:
- Making sure the iPhone app is available ASAP (it’s in Apple’s hands - and they’ve been very supportive and positive, so we hope its coming soon!)
- Bug fixes and usability/cross-browser fixes
- Making it easier to find the most real-time discussion and see what your friends are doing on hotpotato.com
- Making it easier to tell your friends what you’re doing and ask them to join you. Talking to yourself isn’t any fun.
We’re really excited to see what you all end up using Hot Potato for. Any event that more than a few people that are interested is a great opportunity to try it out. You can even use it to document a personal experience that you might like to share with your friends as its happening. On the other end of the spectrum, we’re looking forward to connecting many groups of friends around larger events like sports and concerts.
Thanks again for your support from the entire team of us (Jace, Jeremy, Lincoln, and Saadiq).
-Justin Shaffer
justin at hotpotato dot com
