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by johnnymonster 4536 days ago
why would you work on something for 3 years and not have any sort of beta out there. How do you know what you have is going to work or if anyone is even going to use it? It just seems crazy to work on something for this long and hide it away for 3 years. With all of the things on the internet that have changed in 3 years, how do you know your approach has not become out of date...
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There was an internal beta for over a year now. And our approach changed twice over those 3 years.

A product which is so complex and aimed at businesses can't be 'bootstrapped' in 3 months and launched. The result would be that nobody would care about it because it would be incomplete and wouldn't cater to their needs. There are a lot of such products and nobody remembers about them. I hope our effort will pay off, and that's what our current testers are telling me :)

How do you know there was no beta?