The Portland beta of Shizzow has gone really well, and we’ve been saying that we would eventually be opening Shizzow up to other cities. Today is the day!
We wanted to announce that we will be opening up Shizzow to people in California with a focus on the Bay Area. The Shizzow team will start sending invites out today to our friends in the Bay Area, but we need your help!
- If you live in the Bay Area and would like an invite, please request one! I’ll be sending them out in batches a few times per day.
- If you are already using Shizzow, please send a few invites to your Bay Area friends and family.
- If you run out of invites and need more, you can petition the Shizzow Invite Fairy using our contact form. I promise that the Shizzow Invite Fairy monitors the contact us emails.
- Send us feedback! If you find any bugs or just want to send us some suggestions for feedback, please submit all feedback to our Get Satisfaction account.
Our other big announcement today is that we are going to bootstrap Shizzow instead of pursuing funding from VCs or Angel investors. Those of you who are new to Shizzow may not realize that every member of the Shizzow team has a day job, and Shizzow has received every ounce of love that we have left after closing out our daily 9-5 shifts.
Given the economic uncertainties that are affecting many companies and startups, we’ve decided to continue Shizzow as a self-funded project, and to work towards profitability without external assistance. While our technological enhancements may not be rolled out as rapidly we would like, we feel that self-sufficient sustainable growth, ala 37Signals, is the right way to grow Shizzow.