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LemonStand is in pre-beta

3 | published by Danny Halarewich on Tuesday, November 10, 2009

We invited a very small group of participants for a pre-beta testing bonanza. The intention was to find and fix any issues that would have put the public beta off to a bad start.

The pre-beta test group was invite only. We brought in people that seemed most excited about LemonStand mainly by monitoring what people were saying on Twitter, Facebook and other channels.

Current Status

"Your backend is just amazing and we are truly humbled at the opportunity to use your software even before the release...

We spent quite a bit of time yesterday on the backend and it’s amazing reporting features. They were just incredible. We really liked the fact that it is easy to use and the charts are just outright fabulous."

- Joe Praveen

It has only been open for about 2 weeks, and we have already fixed several issues related to installation, server compatibility and the general licensing procedures. So we feel that things are going quite well.

Everyone participating has been providing great feedback thus far. While we have not seen any of the testers creations using LemonStand yet, we know it's going to be very interesting once these sandbox sites start popping up because of the talent we have on board already.

We have around 10 people/companies on board right now.

Thank you to the pre-beta participants

Your feedback, bug reports and questions have been extremely valuable. We would like to thank you. Some of these include Incognito, LOUD! Creative, Mack Richardson, Fair Trade Jewllery, Political Pixel, Torpedo Juice, Seventhfury, Rachel Greaves, OnWired, ElectricPulp and Squared Eye.

And for all the rest of you...

We have recieved outstanding support from the online community so far. From getting showcased in design inspiration sites, CSS galleries and having blog articles writen about us, it's all very humbling. We also want to say thanks to everyone who has connected with us over Twitter and Facebook to help us spread the word.

We're working very hard on getting the initial issues out of the way so that we can release the public beta. The pre-beta group is pushing us along now, so we don't anticipate there to be many more obvious issues. And once all these issues are resolved, we'll release the public beta.

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