Holy Crap.I woke up to a phone call from Gavin (he's three hours ahead these days) telling me that Solution Watch posted a review of Emurse. For where we are at right now in our development cycle, I'm not sure if it could have been anymore positive.
Next thing you know, we're listed on del.icio.us popular, posted to Download Squad (and not by our own meddling.. for those that don't know, Gavin and I have a connection to the Blogsmith, the software that runs them), Lifehack, and countless personal blogs
We had a fairly ugly bug that snuck its way in, we think via a copy and paste mishap. It's fixed now. Basically, existing resumes would download not as the resume, but as the resume type... Yeah, I know, lame, and its our bad. It's behind us now, and our test cases are that much more improved ;)
The numbers are looking great though, and I think we have a winner on our hands. The 1000% jump in the rate of signup's today isn't nearly impressive to me as the close to 1000% jump in the number of people who came back to emurse from the past to update their resume. This to me signals that people are getting it, which is fantastic.
We are continuing to mature the platform as well. We're introducing elements of hResume per Chris Messina, as well as Brian Oberkirch, suggestion. We're really excited about it -- hopefully we can help push the standard some. There are a few aspects to it that don't really mesh with what we have going on. We're trying to keep things really open ended, which makes the microformat tough to fully support. We'll get the important fields online for sure though, and that will generate a ton of new hResumes right away. Exciting stuff.
As always, we welcome your thoughts, and help us continue to spread the word! :)


Comments...
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"this url has been saved by 354 people."
Congrats on building a niche service. Hopefully the service I hope to be releasing soon will do the same ;)
9:34PM on Jul 11th 2006 by Shawn Christopher
2. Hey Alex, congrats on your recent publicity and stellar launch! Looking forward to seeing where this goes from here and what hResume can do for you... ;)
2:52PM on Jul 12th 2006 by Chris Messina