After we’ve been in beta for over a year now, the introduction of countless new features, a database crash, a server move, and tons of bug fixes we decided to finish the beta with the now available build 29.
The most visible change is our revised homepage. We now offer a detailed help and we also optimized the sign in/up pages as well as the general homepage navigation. We hope this is at everyones fancy.
On the application side we now have reached a point were the kind and count of support mails (new mail address: info@mind42.com) indicated that the service runs pretty stable. As it is with any software project we probably aren’t bug free, but since this is a web-application we will continue to enhance the application with every build. Going Un-Beta is just a signal that we have reached a certain level of stability.
What does this mean for the users of Mind42? Currently: Nothing changes. We are still working an a paid pro-version of Mind42 - but this doesn’t mean that we’ll quit the free service of Mind42. More infos will be published when this is getting ready. Also we are still interested in adding new features to Mind42, so please just send any feature requests to info@mind42.com.
So welcome everybody to the second beta-free year of Mind42. After this pretty big step, we’ve worked on for months now, we are tensely waiting for feedback. Just comment this post or send us an e-mail to info@mind42.com .
Finally as the lead client developer I want to say thanks to all the folks at Irian who worked on (some more, some less) and made Mind42 possible, as well as all the early users of Mind42, which are still using the application and helped us with their precious feedback. Thanks.
Congratulations.
Mind42 is an excellent service and one that I find invaluable dealing with clients in showing them the layout of their existing websites and then collaborating to revise the new design.
I’m sure you’ll come up with some more features worthy of a paid subscription.
Keep up the good work.
Gareth.
Comment by Gareth on Thu, 10.07.2008 - 9:14
Kind of funny with all this great stuff on Mind42, how you wouldn’t use it or showcase it to create even Mind42’s site map!
Comment by Eric on Thu, 10.07.2008 - 17:38
Russian videoreview of mind42 - http://www.vimeo.com/1309728
Comment by Vitalii Zdanevich on Thu, 10.07.2008 - 18:03
Noticing in the latest release that it’s not exporting all branches when going to PDF. On many of the trees, even if I have 3 or 4 child branches, the PDF only comes up with 2 on that branch. Still a bit buggy I think
Comment by Eric on Thu, 10.07.2008 - 21:14
@Eric: Showcasing the application for the sitemap is a great idea. Concerning the PDF export I’ll cite myself
: “Going Un-Beta is just a signal that we have reached a certain level of stability”…
We aren’t completely bug free but we are working on every bug that bubbles up, like the one you’ve just reported…
Comment by Stefan Schuster on Fri, 11.07.2008 - 8:51
Very good and easy Tool. The best of those I tried out.
Just the collaboration doesn´t work as discribed in the Help-text. I didn´t see the changes of my collaborator “live”, highlighted with different colors. After waiting a few minutes, I had to open the file again, to see the changes(without highlighted c.).
When the collaboration feature works as discribed, Mind42 is almost perfect.
Comment by Cecil on Thu, 17.07.2008 - 11:55
Any thoughts on a limit to mindmaps for the upcoming free version?
Comment by Tort on Tue, 02.09.2008 - 19:00
@Tort: Actually, yes! There will be a map limit, but we won’t block access to any additional maps which got created before the limit. Also we still don’t have a date for such a limited free version.
Comment by Stefan Schuster on Fri, 05.09.2008 - 11:04
What a great webapp!
Expecting the upcoming build 30 supports Google Chrome!
Comment by JXON on Sat, 13.09.2008 - 18:24