Making Progress Toward General Availability

I just wanted to provide a quick update on Roam's progress - to keep contact with our current and prospective community. In spite of the lack of visible product releases in the last two weeks, lots is happening! Sometimes, a blog post will have to stand in as a substitute for a new app version.

As a solo founder, everything from design, infrastructure, frontend and backend coding, finance, marketing, and whatever else comes up falls on my desk, so sometimes I get pulled away from shipping new versions of the app for other tasks. The past couple of weeks, that's exactly what's happened.

Nevertheless, progress on Roam is still marching forward. I've had to perform some major under-the-hood migrations, and this is exactly why I've kept things in an invite-only mode. These sorts of discoveries are often hard to predict and you want to avoid running into them once you're fully in production. That would create a bad experience for both our community and the founder(s)!

For those interested, last week I rewrote the web frontend (what you're looking at right now) to accommodate our upcoming publicly editable trail database. This week, I'm in the process of transitioning hosting providers from our prototype setup to a production setup so our service is always reliably online and fast.

Soon, we'll be able to start inviting more people, and open up some really exciting features such as our free and open source trail database, new post types in the app, community features for group and events, and of course Android support! Looking forward to getting all of this in our users hands as quickly as possible.