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Re HackerBooks, that’s a really cool idea and seems to be implemented well. Thanks for sharing.

You should check out the IRC channel on freenode -- #startups. I think a lot of people go there and would probably love to beta.

Great idea. I think you'll be an ideal user and contributor for my product. I appreciate your feedback.

how did you release to a small group? do you mean "friends and family"? or something more sophisticated?

Not friends and family; I try to focus on the site audience instead. So I got in touch with people I appreciate and follow on twitter and hackernews, mostly!

First I made a quick survey, then I released without setting the DNS etc... For a more controlled fashion I would have added a real "private beta authentication".

hth!