Mingle

It has been a long time since our last post and much has happened since but only one thing matters: Mingle is growing.

Every month, Apple has featured Mingle: New & Newsworthy (August), What’s Hot (October) and Staff Favorites (October).

We have over 26,000 downloads and there are no signs of slowing down. We’ve released close to 15 updates since and prepping our largest update yet. It’s going to be awesome…

And today marks a new chapter in the Mingle journey: we now have an office. It’s a dedicated shared space but its absolutely gorgeous and we thank the people @ LBTEC for their awesome support, Ali, Scott and Eric. Thanks guys.

Last but not least, here are some pictures. Come by if you’re ever in Downtown Long Beach!

Last but not least, our patio…

We just submitted a build to the App Store for review.  This version contains some improvements to the initial introduction flow as well as some fixes that should help with the app crashes that you all have been seeing. The big feature that we’ve included in this release is support for logging into Mingle with a LinkedIn account or just creating your own Mingle account. Every app crash email that we get pains us to no end and we just want you all to know that. We do in fact look at every email sent to us.  We’re moving as fast as we can in addition to balancing that age old high wire act of including bug fixes as well as new features.  Thank you for patience!

The past 2 weeks have been a blur. It all started when…

2 random Apple employees introduced themselves at the same cafe on campus. Not at the same time but when the 2nd employee introduced himself, he saw that someone else was there before…someone he didn’t know. 

Long story short, we were featured as “new and newsworthy” then moved over to “what’s hot” and has been there ever since.

20k downloads, 9k users & 40k messages later, we just got featured on Mashable. Tonight. Which spread to Business Insider. Then to the Wall Street Journal. Although it was just the automated link sharing originating from Mashable, it still felt good to see our team’s efforts be captured w/ thoughtful words. Here’s the article:

http://mashable.com/2011/08/29/mingle/

The community feedback has be amazing. We’ve learned so much in terms of what was working and what wasn’t. We’ve been working around the clock to provide the best and natural way to meet those around you. In some divine scheduling, we also just got our huge update approved today just in time for the surge. That helped.

What’s clear is that the race has only just begun. It won’t be a sprint but a fun, passion-filled marathon. 

We experienced some brief downtime due to poor planning on my part.  We should be good now and all systems are go.  Carry on minglers!

Hey guys, this weekend we released a new update but it broken the messaging system. BUT we’re happy to tell you that its now fixed! Mingle Away!

Colored me impressed.  We submitted this latest update on Wednesday and it’s up in the App Store today.  Apple you have not ceased to amaze me.

iPhone version 1.1 just hit the app store! Download and install ASAP. This version surfaces minglers nearby as well as shows you who’s been there. We also threw in some bug fixes because nobody likes app crashes.