Wed, Mar 17 2010

If You Can Dodge A Wrench, You Can Dodge A Ball

By mike at 10:33 am

Payments, I know. Everyone has been asking about payments. Even my dodgeball team. I had to skip the playoffs tonight to work on payments. Tragic, isn’t it. I mean, really, think about it. How often do you get to spend an hour of your night throwing things at other people for fun? And compete it at?! Seriously. Dodgeball is the catharsis for a New York soul.

 

But I digress…

Here’s the scoop on payments.

  • Houston, we are go for liftoff! – I’ve ran the tests several times now and the numbers are all adding up as expected. Efficiencies have been found and tuned. Backups and replication are in place. In fact, I’m so nerdy about this that I’ve  mapped out the number of seconds that we expect it all to take, broken down by each step. Let’s light this candle.
  • About that launch – along with the new payment system, we will be launching some other new stuff which includes Facebook Connect for Quirky. The idea is to make it as easy as possible for you all to share what you’re doing on Quirky through Facebook. You know, if you’re into that kind of thing and all.
  • T-minus … –  I’d like to get this puppy into orbit sometime tomorrow night. I’ll be working with Chris and Gui tomorrow to apply the finishing touches. If all goes well, we’ll bring the site down for a couple hours and let ‘er rip. We’ll drop a tweet when we’re ready to go.

So, with that said, when we do launch, the product earnings you’ll see in your account will be accurate and up to date. And from then on, they will only increase.

Welcome to Quirky ;)