WOOT!  Tynan, you & the SETT team have been working tirelessly for the past two years to get to this day.  ( I know because I've been watching it all happen!).  

I remember when we were walking in Muir woods and you told me about this vision you had.  A vision for a blogging platform that would allow communities to participate in the conversation.  A vision for a new type of interaction among those who were passionate about the subject matter. At first I thought you were crazy for trying to unseat the big blogging platforms out there.  Then I got really excited as you described it in more detail, and I somehow talked you into letting me give it a try for my blog.  And I'm so happy I made the switch.  The SETT experience is leaps and bounds better than anything else that's out there.  And I know this is just the beginning.  I am SO excited to have other bloggers joining SETT.  

Congratulations on your beta launch and the passion of the SETT community.  Everyone who switches to SETT will look back on this day as the start of something magnificent and be proud to have been involved.

Tynan, you have my utmost respect for your dedication and your hard work. However, ultimately, the only metric for your success won't be your faith, but how many people will give you actual money for the product.

You've got your first dozen paying customers and some people would say that this is enough as a business/market evaluation. Congrats for that achievement!

Investing two years in a product without having a single paying customer has quite some risk and cost attached to it. I'm not sure if I'd do it. Not only is there the cost of "missed opportunity to make cash otherwise" but also the possibility that not enough people will buy, which might be the worst case. Some people are paying, but not enough to be sustainable. This would be different if you invested only a couple hundred hours and see if you can make a few bucks of it. But a couple thousand hours?

With that investment comes also a huge emotional investment. You made sacrifices throughout the two years and with that there's an increase of the feeling that "It HAS to work - otherwise, I'm crushed deeply". But I guess from what I've learned about you from your blog post, this is exactly the way you wanted it. High risk, hopefully high reward. Sort of extreme.

Anyways, I wish you all the best with SETT!

Hi everyone, I've got 10 invite codes for SETT, for those of you that want one.  Here's how to get it. 

Tynan, yesterday I reread some of your old posts about polyphasic sleeping, especially stuff like the "polyphasic vs. monophasic deathmatch" and why you stopped. You said things like that you didn't know what to do with all the additional time and that it limited the social things you could do. When you describe your daily routine these days, it seemed that neither would be much of an issue. That's why I ask:

Have you ever thought about going back on some sort of polyphasic sleep schedule? It seems it would work pretty well with your current life situation. But since I think it unlikely that you have not considered it, you being you and all, why have you decided against it?

This really interests me.

On topic: Cool that SETT's finally being adopted by more people. I'm looking forward to said blog to blog features, sounds interesting.

Nice work Tynan. Good to see SETT finally being released to a larger audience. Growth will be easier (or at least less of a guess) now that you'll be getting real-world feedback.

For some reason I thought this was a solo project. You have a team ("we") working on this?

Tynan! Congrats! I been a reader for three years and your hard work habits (a lot of your recommended reading too) have rubbed off on me. I took up exercising six days a week, started meditating almost daily, getting back into violin after a 7 year hiatus, started learning Ruby on Rails, and developed a travel bug. When you first moved your blog to SETT, I didn't see what the big deal was, but after I read through the community page of your blog, I realize no other blogging platform out there has channeled something so fundamental to the blogging experience. That is, encouraging readers with real estate to micro-blog about the blog's theme. Sure, one person can be a famous blogger, but through reading blogs, I found that I actually got more out of user comments than the actual blog itself. One person surely can't think of everything. :)

I would love to have an invite. I been brainstorming about a foodie/restauranteering/coding/habits blog myself. Good luck with your blog, I would be happy to use and support your platform for years to come!

Congratulations on the successful launch! I still can't believe you've built a state-of-art blogging platform with so little resources. It serves as a great example of how much one can do if only he tries hard enough.

I was one of your initial customers and I'll start my a new lifestyle blog in the following days. I've never been so excited to start a new blog, but what you've done really inspires me to do my best as well.