Last night the Bungee Labs team invited the first group of developers to Bungee Connect, officially opening up the early access beta program. The initial group of early access customers is small, but we intend to ramp up quickly as we carefully monitor the system for performance and scaling, adding groups of 50 until all registered beta developers get their invites (we currently have around two thousand early access sign-ups ready to get their invites).
The adjective “exciting” tends to be overused (I’m guilty of that), but it really was an “exciting” moment to send our first set of access invites last night and move on to the next phase of Bungee Connect’s evolution. The pic below shows the moment we (Ted in fact) hit send on the first set of invites to our beta customers from Lyle’s hotel room in Sunnyvale and doing so (as Ted says) with high fives and sighs of relief mixed with no small amount of anticipation in the hotel room and back at the ranch.
From left to right: Alex “me” Barnett, Ted “not-that-reverend” Haeger, Lyle “on-the-ball” Ball and Brad “we-need-hints” Hintze.
Now we’ve got Bungee Connect to this point, it’s time to forge ahead with supporting the beta developers, responding to and collating feedback, work through the engineering and usability improvements, fixing bugs and known issues, and advance the user education content and experience so developers can get productive as quickly as possible. We have a lot of work ahead of us before we get to GA, but it’s great to hit this milestone for the whole team - very energizing.