Profy has
finally launched our very own blogging platform in alpha. We have been
developing it here in Russia
for more than a year now and the alpha release is a very important step. We
were sitting and waiting nervously for the first reviews after the embargo was
lifted and I think I will post links to some of the first reviews here to
cordially thank all the bloggers.
Crenk was the first to break
the story though I was a bit disappointed to see our press release almost
unchanged. But you need to stick to using language from press releases when you
want to break news and be the first.
Just a few
minutes later the first
actual review arrived from CenterNetworks.
I knew Allen from CN took some time testing the product out so I was pretty
worried about what his conclusions would be. But I felt instantly relieved
after I read what Allen had to say because the review was much more favorable
than I even dared to hope. And Allen was right on the spot about the current
state of the product when he stated that at the moment the platform could be
more interesting for basic bloggers as it lacks many features that experienced
bloggers are accustomed to using. To reply to this, I think I should mention
that the current state of the product only represents about 20% of the entire
roadmap so eventually even the more experienced bloggers will find it meeting
their requirements to a blogging platform.
A few hours
later the review
from Erick Schonfeld over at Techcrunch arrived which I was very happy
about because getting rather a favorable review from the most powerful technology
blog is definitely worth something for a startup. In fact, Eric was able to see
the most important thing of the platform – that is, its “social” nature. He was
even generous enough to tell
“It seems
like a natural evolution, bringing the worlds of blogging and social networking
closer together.”
This review
was
promoted to the front page of Digg and sent lots of people requesting
invitations to try out Profy. Right now I am busy distributing the invitations
to the people that arrived from Techcrunch,
CenterNetworks, How
To Split An Atom, and other blogs. If you have requested your invitation and
have not received it yet, you will definitely get it in the next few days – we
are not letting all the people in simultaneously because we have to watch how
our servers behave not to crash everything.
A special
thank you goes to all the bloggers that have already covered our launch in
multiple languages that I just can not read – Chinese, Romanian,
German, Italian and some
other languages I could not even recognize. I don’t know if there reviews were
positive or negative but anyway I am happy to see international users coming
from these blogs and requesting invitations.
Finally, I
would like to thank every blogger that took some time to try out our new
product and to review it on his or her blog. I appreciate each and every post and
we are watching closely all the comments from bloggers to know what things we
should focus on in our future development. If you are a blogger and want to
post a review of Profy on your own blog and distribute some invitations to your
readers, shoot me an email at s.gladkova@profy.com
and I will provide the instructions.
So thanks
to every single blogger and user that helped us make this alpha release
possible. We know perfectly well that we have a long way to go with the product
but we will do our best to make Profy the perfect blogging platform that any
blogger will be happy about.
UPDATE: We
have also received a fabulous review from Webware.
Josh Lowensohn definitely spent quite some time using and reviewing the
platform and I have an impression that he has come to the conclusion that the
hype around Profy is deserved.
