TipiT.to

Good press

I spent today picking Rodger Buyvoets’s (Pixelindustries) brain on launch strategies, mechanisms and comparing notes about how you can best get out of the gates fast. A lot of comparable but also some new stuff which means lots and lots of more work for me keeping track of people, publications, writing press releases etc.

There is a fine line when an e-mail promoting a service is unsollicited and spammy and when it actually is something good that will add value to a website. We will err on the side of caution in these matters (We hate spammers just as much as you do.) but we may still be sending out some mails. Rest assured that if we do we will do it with integrity and back it up with our genuine conviction.

Launch update

There is only so much promotion that we can do proactively pre-launch. We can keep telling you about how good our site is but until we can back it up with something live, those are just words.

Reinier is now busy finalizing agreements with a payment provider and as soon as that has been done, we can launch. Right now we are looking at a timetable of a couple of weeks.

Reinier and I just got back from a short trip to London and Brighton to attend dConstruct and Barcamp Brighton. Reinier showed Tipit to some people at Barcamp and had a pretty positive response (more about that later).

We are still working hard on launching the site but a lot of it is out of our hands. Here is a small update:

Functionality wise we are mostly feature complete. The software is ready and demonstrable. Some functionality which we are planning for post-1.0 may make it into this version, but we currently have all the stuff we think is essential for a launch.

The thing that is holding us back right now is the agreements and details with the financial partners that will process our transactions and which laws we need to adhere to and which guarantees we can and will offer to our users. Getting this stuff right is essential for any business in the financial sector and it is not very easy.

We are working hard and making progress here so you will not have to wait much longer. Because a lot of this is not in our hands we cannot really give any indications on how long it will take, but we hope to launch soon.