A Look Back, a Look Ahead — rrready for a New Year!
We want to wish everyone a very healthy and happy New Year, as we leave behind 2009 (and all its challenges) and step into a hopeful and brighter 2010. We have a lot to be grateful for at rrripple and a lot to look forward to in 2010. Here are some of those things:
Most important, our thanks goes to our team, their families and our devoted early adopters (you). As a grassroots company with over 15 members sprinkled all over the world (Armenia, India, France, England, USA, etc), we have all shared in the highs of entrepreneurial good times as well as the lows of the equity market dive that started in late September of 2008. With a shortage of cash, we relied on each other more than ever to push rrripple ahead, bit by bit (have fun with the pun), towards our Beta release earlier this year at the TechCrunch50 Conference in San Francisco. And we did it! Through an incredible effort by many, rrripple has been slowing adding new users each day, receiving feedback to better shape its product offering and gaining overwhelmingly positive press coverage around the globe (yesterday we found a Polish magazine writing about us).
Our goal for 2009 was to release our Beta and begin the iterative development process with our early adopter market. We’ve done that, and now we’re looking forward to a really exciting 2010, where the rrripple visual architecture now gets to expand into new areas. There are three main goals we have for rrripple in 2010:
- Grow our user base by providing the most delightful user experience to privately share your life’s media with the groups and friends in your life;
- Extend our visual architecture to 3rd parties (as well as integrate with them) to allow others to benefit from our visual core UI
- Introduce highly-demanded features: public groups (yep, they’re coming soon), Profile pages (wait ’till you see how we’re going to do this) and Premium services for a certain percentage of our Premium Users. We’ll also be releasing our Facebook application and additional mobile-compliant apps for Palm, Android and others (TBD).
And so, with a hopeful eye towards 2010, we wish you all the best year of your lives. May you share in joy, health, peace — and may your sharing be private and secure.
The rrripple Team