Communities and a tingle of anticipation

I wonder if all Founders get this frisson of excitement when they are working on a new product and think it's their real 'secret sauce' or the catalyst for the big things to come?

I certainly am feeling it right now, the anticipation and the excitement in amongst working hard on everything else from operational stuff and marketing stuff as well as the "need to earn some money" jobs I'm doing on the side.  I really don't have time to do all this stuff let alone spend some time blogging about a feeling I have!

But the sense of excitement is there.  The 'OMG this is going to be huge if we can get some traction' fear/excitement.  Dave and I talk about it occassionally but it's hemmed in by the day to day struggles we have with creating a flyer or setting up Facebook posts and shares and doing some business development, and testing.

But looking at the dev site and the JIRA tasks that are ready for testing or the new features we think about for the roadmap does give us a buzz.  I blogged about it today on the official Oddswop blog about it.  Just couldn't not share things.  It helps when our Business Development guys are also excited about it.  We hired them to help us out as we get too bogged down in everything else and feel that the key is to do some business development and get some communities onboard.  They went to a fair on the weekend and managed to get quite a few people excited.  But I wonder how many 'communities' we'll end up with.

We're currently testing out the category feature which allows unique categories to be created per community and those to be mapped to the main categories.  It's been interesting as there are some new 'main' categories which need to be added such as "food" even though it's not an area that is immediately obvious to have... even if I have listed a big bag of Fantales on there.

Here's a screenshot of the dev site's 'communities' page.  Some of these may even make it to the live site!