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.