The time frame is now from "two weeks to two months"? - the estimate was "a couple of weeks" in November. How do we know that six weeks from now you won't be saying the same thing? If "everytime you get to the next build" you have to "order another round of changes", then this has all the attributes of what is called a "runaway project" - i.e. a project that is out of control - like what happened with Microsoft Vista and many other software projects. see more

I have been seeing potential competitors using social application service providers making alarming progress with FAR less effort then what I have had to do to make Dolphin work as a non-dating site. As ErvanErfian pointed out, services like ning, yuku, communityx, etc aren't standing still either. Dolphin is going to need to be better and more flexible, and it needs to happen fairly quickly.

I know this was supposed to be a "feel good" blog post but I'm afraid that with me it has had the opposite effect.

Rob