Thanks, Muz. That sort of stuff is actually really helpful. A big hurdle here is going to be marketing. I honestly believe we've created something really amazing here, but a lot of it is in the pitch and how I can get that across to other people.

You're certainly right, the FAQ (and product in general) lacks a concise pitch. Luckily, we're only a week into launch - so we haven't been doing the wrong thing for months, wondering where our problem is.

I'm not a marketing guru. I'm trained as a biochemist, evolutionary biologist, and am a self-taught programmer. Everything else I'm just figuring out as I go.

I have a whole ton of things to get done over the next week, like threesided mentioned this is pretty much a one-man show right now. I'm responsible for business, marketing, design, administration, development and testing. Baby steps. Don't be surprised if you see the FAQ (and splash page in general) revamped a few times very soon.

In regards to Firefox being at 60% compatibility:
We can't help a large chunk of that. That's up to Mozilla developers. We realized we'd have a problem with the Firefox platform pretty early on. It has a ton of compliance issues, doesn't parse or run Javascript that effectively or efficiently, and in my experience has just been completely outclassed by Google Chrome. Even Opera has better performance. In some cases it's worthwhile to find a workaround (as we've had to do for some platforms) but in other cases the workaround ends up doing more harm than good. In this case, some workarounds just aren't even possible given the limitations of the browser.

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Hey. Creator / lead developer of the project here. Indie gaming fan, threesided and I have been friends since childhood and began a lot of really ambitious games together when we were in high school. Kind of helped direct each of us to where we are now.

I signed up just to address one of the most recent questions directly:

As far as I'm concerned we will never be integrating with Facebook / implementing Facebook functionality. Twitter is a different can of worms (I actually quite enjoy it, and they haven't crossed any lines as far as their business model goes).

Facebook's core business model is fundamentally flawed. Individual users should not be the product you're selling to other corporations. If somebody signs up to use your service or product, you should be providing them exactly that. You shouldn't be hoarding all of their data (aggregate or not), selling it to highest bidder, and repeatedly shoving unwanted advertisements in their face. Not only that, but at this point, Facebook is merely a convoluted piece of bloatware with no semblance of ultimate vision or direction. It's a sinking ship, a dying platform, and that can be evidenced by the lack of younger users (new generations) signing up with, or sticking with it in recent times. It has become a faceless member of "Big Data" with no real human connection --- what I believe to be the most fundamentally important aspect of a truly successful, sustainable corporate entity.

I refuse to support the Facebook platform any longer than I absolutely have to. What I'm trying to create here is a unitary, standalone product that makes everyone's lives a little bit easier. A way to centralize all of the different ways we attempt to communicate on the internet into one ubiquitous platform that can be used on any device, any time, anywhere. Identically. The focus is not on your core group of real-life friends. The focus is not on parties, advertising yourself. The focus is not on celebritism or pictures. I will be clear that it doesn't disclude these potential uses, but the true focus is on the message. Communication, pure-and-simple. I anticipate (and would hope) that some people will use NotePS much like they'd use TIGsource forums (or any other message board) and communicate with others and build relationships based around common interests as people begin to play around with the tagging system to identify their favourite subjects and hobbies. I expect some people will use it as they'd use Twitter, and only post short updates to their close friends to let people know what's going on. Others may choose to use the BBM-style messaging system combined with private (or conference) notes to run a business, discuss things with colleagues, organize events. Some people might use it like reddit, effectively treating it like a link farm. The possibilities are endless based on the way the platform is set up. You can reveal your real name and identity or choose not to. You can communicate anonymously.

I am obviously a huge fan of the way you can communicate with the platform (as that was the heart of the vision to begin with), but the functional aspects it includes as a Peripheral System are just as important. Like I mentioned in the tech demo, it all runs off of a 40kB core script. Now, that will certainly grow in the future, but I can't expect it growing larger than 200kB in the next couple of years. This means, should we make any new updates, upgrades, or whatnot to the core platform, you can receive them and update near-instantaneously. The equivalent would be an iOS update (or Android update) that you don't need to download and install and worry about. Bam. Everything is updated and works in less than a second. This setup (treating it as an operating system --- Peripheral System) also allows for seamless integration of 3rd party apps and widgets, anything you could ever want to do on the internet can be customized to your NotePS. It won't be long until you no longer have to pay for something on either the Apple Store or Google Play. Hell, what if you change devices? You grab it once. On NotePS. And you have it on every device. Desktop, notebook, tablet, smartphone, TV, maybe even the dashboard of your car in years to come.

Now that I've typed this up, I may re-use aspects of it on other websites in coming weeks. I feel like I'm going to have to be reiterating many of the same points over and over.

If you'd like to see me personally discuss the platform a little bit (threesided didn't include this in the first post), you can check out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym5W8-IyKPE

Thanks so much, everyone.
- Keith