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! :)
