Blastoff Crashes and Burns

In the ‘how not to launch your product department’ we found our earlier prediction regarding the Blastoff launch to be partially correct.  We anticipated huge amounts of people would be logging in to their Blastoff account and sending out invites to all of their friends and family.

The deluge of email turned out not to be a problem because the number of people trying to log in crashed the system long before they had a chance to send out much of anything.  I checked it out again and a few of the main site pages show up but most of the system is still not functional.

Yes, it’s a new venture and everyone can expect growing pains but come on, this should have been anticipated long ago.  And now the pressure is on because they are suppose to launch with Pizza Hut next week and I hear they paid upwards of $30 million for that privelege.

Good news is once they fire all the people responsible for this mess there might actually be some jobs available.

Tags: Blastoff Network

Blastoff Inbox Overload

In about 30 minutes the Blastoff Network is going to try to take off on their next launch phase.  After teaming up with Pre-paid legal it appears they underestimated the number of associates they were bringing to the table.  The original design of the invite system didn’t appear robust enough to handle all of their contacts.

From what I hear, that has been corrected and soon every Blastoff member can start inviting their friends and family members.  And everyone will start getting the same email from everyone they know that has already joined (it’s free so why not).  To help prevent all of those emails getting trapped by various SPAM systems, Blastoff has contacted all the big players to let them know this is coming.  Members are limited to sending out 250 invites each at a time and can’t send out any more until those invites have been responded to in some way.

We’ll see what happens.  And if your email system goes down this afternoon, now you’ll know why!

Tags: Blastoff Network