beerchief beta launch

D-day!

Today is July 1st, it’ll go down in history as the day BeerChief launched in private BETA mode. By the way, for anyone wondering what ‘BETA’ mode is - it’s just a fancy term for public testing.

Later today, BeerChief will officially open up to the world. Kind of. It’s not a full public launch, but it’s a private BETA launch and the only difference is that we’ll be holding back our aggressive promotion campaign a little longer.

There’ll be no serious attempt to drive traffic to the site, we’ll keep a low profile and spend our time examining feedback. There will be at least one major upgrade before we go public and i’ve said previously i’m already working on that.

Everything is working at present on BeerChief, the only issue we face is with videos. Hopefully we’ll get it sorted sooner rather than later though. On the issue of videos - we’ve done something pretty clever by installing a modified video section which effectively offloads 100% of video bandwidth to youtube. I’ll talk about it at a later date.

I’ll post full details on how to access the site later, don’t worry, you’ll all be able to gain access to the site without much effort In the meantime, check out our slick new homepage design and blog design. Guess who created both

Anyway, it’s 3am - i’ll be up extra early tomorrow to try and add more content to BeerChief. I also have to prepare an email to send out and create two blog posts - one for the BeerChief blog and one for this blog. It really doesn’t stop… and we’re not even launched yet

Add in the pressure of keeping advertisers happy, keeping the features coming for members, making sure the site is up 24/7…. it’s a 24/7 job if you’re serious about it. Fast forward a few months and ironically that’s the situation i dream of being in

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