We’ve been discussing Dopplr over dinner and discovered lot’s of functionalities we miss. Dopplr is a great service, or at least, we all imagine how gret it will be, when it is feature complete. I personally miss an option of broadcasting my travel plans to anyone, not just those who know me. For me, this inability kills the core value proposition of helping me meeting with people when traveling.

I am sure the guys are working on it and that they will figure out the best way to do it. It is interesting, that the good ideas shine trough that imperfections of early stage implementation, and that the users are happy to suffer annoyances, as long as the core is improving.

Related to this, I have received an interesting test user review of our service today. It was from a well established blogger, whose opinion I respect a lot. He said, that he likes the concept, but is missing this and that functionality. A typical user response, when faced with a product that is not feature complete yet. He knew very well that the product won’t be feature complete, and wanted early access exactly because he wanted to help steer it.

I am very happy he suggested all the improvements, we have allready planned. It seems we are in snc with expectations.

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