GigPark launches private beta

I’m extremely happy to let you all know that about 5 minutes ago we announced the launch of the GigPark private beta.

From the GigPark blog:

Pema, Paul, Tony and I are extremely excited to announce that we have a site ready. We’ve taken a page out of the brilliant book Getting Real by 37signals and kept it simple, but we think we have a fun and very useful application on our hands — a way for you and your friends to all receive great service by sharing recommendations.

Rather than start a publicity blitz, our plan is to introduce GigPark to a small group of people that we know and make it absolutely AMAZING for them. We are going to spend 100% of our time listening, building features the group asks for, and fixing problems they spot. We want to make a genuine difference in the lives of these people: hopefully giving them access to great new service people and allowing them to really help each other out.

The long term plan is that once this group is stoked on GigPark, we can take the walls down and get more people involved.

If you want to try GigPark, just ask and we’ll hook you up the next time we hand out beta codes.

And to our fantastic beta group, let the great service begin!

Our business cards arrived today

Completely insignificant, but it feels nice to have cards again.

They were designed by the talented Erica Godfrey and printed by WIZBOT, who did a great job.