Who can take a beta, sprinkle it with Dew?

Mountain Dew that is, the beta man can, the beta man can.

Last night was perhaps one of the most exciting days I've had in this business in a long, long time. We released beta one bleeding edge code of Shockey Monkey and proceeded to debug the code, live. Much like running the marathon, beta testing is a very humbling experience. You go from "Wow, look at what we created" to "Wow, I would have made less mistakes if I just pounded my head against the keyboard" in a matter of minutes. Our beta testers, bless them, were quite excited and really excited to get it going.

Anyhow, beta launched last night and I spent most of the day debugging it. I'll write more about the experience later but suffice to say that you get a very interesting high on showing your product off for the first time and 4 2-liter bottles of Mountain Dew. Fun, fun, fun, fun. And people ask where I get the energy to do all this stuff!