Aside from a few small visual improvements, Woosabi version 1.0b is very much code complete. Although, version o.1a has been used successfully for the past year by pretty demanding (and with quite rightly high expectations) beta client - who has used the product to run an art business split over several galleries. They use Woosabi to do all of the following from one simple interface: sell artwork, invoice customers and pay their artists, create and publish new exhibitions including hi-resolution images of all artwork on their public website, create and send marketing campaigns announcing new exhibtions and to massively reduce their dependence on IT support people.
The long and short of it after 12 months is that we’ve only spoken around 3 or 4 times with regard help or problems, which in my 12 years of development experience is nothing short of a miracle!
They’ve not had a single moment of downtime, and even if they did Woosabi’s offline tool Kimosabi is on hand to provide access to any important data in the event of their web connection being unavailable.
So as we move into our public beta phase next week (we’ll be issuing accounts to the many people who’ve signed up to our beta programme here) we’re all very excited and rightly confident of the wonderful product we’ve built. Why don’t you sign up and tell us what you think too.
Equally exciting for me, will be my forthcoming trip to San Francisco to meet up with an old friend and assess what the venture capital landscape is like in one of the great cities of the world!
