RouteSlip.com Updates

Hello, all. I’ve been going back and forth on whether or not to write this entry for a while. I figure now’s the time…

As much as I would love to, I don’t have the time right now to put into maintaining RouteSlip.com. A couple reasons:

• One man team
• Full-time job (at a startup)
• Newborn baby
• Part time MBA program

… I think that pretty much covers it. I’ve received a few offers of help, but for numerous reasons, I haven’t found someone that can (or wants to) take over support right now.

And while I appreciate a few people’s offers of donations to help keep me involved, but the constraint is time - not money.

I have pages and pages of new features I would love to add, and I would really like to be able to solve each person’s problems with the site. Regarding the latter, it’s just more than I can handle - even if I were full time on this.

And lastly, just to get this off my chest… I’d like to remind people that RouteSlip is a free service. I’ve received several emails commenting about the current lack of support that I can only describe as rude. For a long time I was very diligent in responding to each and every bug report, but for the reasons listed above, it’s just not something I can do anymore - or at least, right now.

Feel free to comment.

Thank you to everyone for their encouragement and support. Just to clarify — I certainly will NOT be pulling the plug, and I am not planning on ditching the development effort altogether. Just at this time, it’s not possible for me to continue development. A friend of mine is moving to a pretty small town in Tennessee and mentioned that he was able to find some great routes in the same area. I definitely don’t want to take a resource like this away from anyone.
I would be more than happy to moderate a semi-open source effort to maintain the site through distributed means — I just need to find someone(s) that wants to put the time and commitment into it. Thanks again!