Waiting for Ravelry

[carynb]

Heh. I just checked my status on the Ravelry invite list. I was told:

• You signed up on July 15, 2007


• You are #16711 on the list.


• 9543 people are ahead of you in line.


• 4340 people are behind you in line.


• 33% of the list has been invited so far

They've about 21,000 requests for invites from Beta testers since June. I mean, I know crafters are really into, well, their craft, but that seems insane. Of course, I can't wait to get my invite, so I can start setting up projects and managing stash and posting pictures and all that kinda stuff. It seems like it's gonna be a really cool site, once it's actually live.

I've actually thought about trying to write software to do something like this on a personal level; doing it on a community level just seems more useful. This way, when I'm starting something new, instead of googling the pattern name for wool recommendations and such, I can just look up the pattern in this one place, and there'll be lots of people with info on how they did it. It'll need a critical mass to work, of course, but it looks to me like they'll have it. It's just such a cool idea. I kinda wish I'd come up with it. *g*