Congratulations Guys :d
Thanks! We've got an incredible roadmap ahead too.
As an exception, the question in your case is not why, but how ? how could you keep the motivation for all these years ? how did you do with finances ? morale of the troops ? etc.
A big motivator was a true need for a product like Moot which made us believe on what we were doing. We also realized that the things we do are pretty unique and n o matter what happens we would be proud of them. We had some savings + income from other projects. We didn't really experience morale troops.
Yea luckily we're able to self fund effectively. Combine that with the fact that we're incredibly passionate about fixing something we consider broken, it really wasn't an issue for us.
Thanks for such an informative Blog, we are building an ambicious community project based on invisionpower but after whatching your work and ideas we may be turning into a completely different Wordpress | Moot community concept approach...
I'm looking forward your release of the client libs. You have a real nice story here. If I would criticize something, that would mostly be about the defaut UI, and particularly the use of white space (lack of it). But hell with that, I can always override the styles. I will surely find usage for this in my own projects. Tje ground work is laid beautifully. Respect.
It seems we all enjoy working crazy hours... And I remember how we were all aching to get back to working on Moot during periods we had to do something else — like being on summer vacation :D @bungle, I actually agree on the white space — but that really isn't something we overlooked, either. It has to do with looking consistent across devices and maintaining a balance between tight content and a large text size for better readability. On the other hand, it's supposed to look very plain (maybe even a bit bland!) to better work as a building ground for your own custom designs, just like you said.
That was a nic read!
Amaizing work you guys; )
Liking it so far.
I love Moot. It rocks. I will continue to use it as my primarily commenting tool :) <3
Wow, this looks nice!
Just had to text a smiley :)
--- var moot = require('moot'); console.log('now you guys just need an npm module for something..'); // this is a test of the code stuff var derp = { hello: 'world' } Object.keys(derp).forEach(function(k) { console.log(k, derp[k]); }); --- Nifty!
Were you working full time? How many developers?
Sometimes full days, sometimes worked on other projects, sometimes worked on Moot around the clock including weekends — impossible to say really, I don't think any of us counted hours. 1 server guy, 1 client guy, 1 designer, with heavy participation on ui/ux by all.
We used contractors as we went along too, but full time in-house development was just 3. We're working on expanding our in-house team now that we're growing rapidly rather than use contractors, but the bulk of the work during our development was still a pretty small team.
Thats some hardcore hacking.
This looks great