This week was “alpha week” (aka, get it out week, live user testing week) for our Reacht (@reachtapp) application.  We’ve been in testing mode with real users for a while but this week we invited a larger group to experience and comment on the idea, branding, style guide, application, messaging, functionality, user interface, user experience.  Our Product Manager, Will Fulton, (@wyfulton) did a great job putting the evolution together.

We ended up with some fantastic feedback.  I want to personally thank those that participated:

• Hap Connors @HapConnors
  • and Mollie and Maggie (thanks, ladies!!)
• Chris Abraham @chrisabraham
• John Crandell (from upstairs – thanks John!)
• Dan Morrison @DanCitizen
• Linda Clevenger @healthy1
• Leif Johnston @LeifJohnston (and Alexandra!)
• Stephen Lee @stephen_lee87
• Andrew Curtis @andrewhcurtis
• Chris Muldrow @muldrow

THANKS EVERYONE!!!!

We REALLY hope everyone developed an eagerness to use the product and enjoyed a short evening of playing with software, eating some pizza and drinking a beer.

David Malaxos (@dmlxs) is on the Reacht team and participated from Florida!  :)n We love our Ricky the Robot (thanks Double Robotics!)

More thanks to the whole Reacht team who brought the product together!!!

• Jim @j1mfulton
• Bryan @bwengren
• Bill @billblevins
• Satchit @satchit
• Patrick @kilink
• Fred @freddrake
• Jackie @jamur2
• Ben @bensanchz
• Mark @AnonymooseGuy
• Cheryl @CherylLynnPage
• Tracy @tracyblevins

I’ll have a longer post out soon with the technical details of what we learned and how.  I didn’t want to miss the opportunity to say thanks to our community (#FBXG) team for the help.  It takes a village.

Some photo moments below…