Top of the Ladder

Good news everyone! LadderToHeaven.com has been featured on SimpleSpark, an online catalog of Web 2.0 applications and services. Please feel free to checkout our profile on SimpleSpark & write a review.

We’re currently working on many fronts to popularize this amazing new service. Programming-wise, the members of our development team are still in the never ending process of optimization and improving user experience. Expect a new wave of features in the upcoming weeks.

For now, the best thing you can do is to keep on posting & praising. To all you new members — Welcome! =) Even if you don’t have the time to write a good deed about yourself or another individual, clicking those “Praise” buttons is just as helpful!

A few moments ago, the latest copy of LadderToHeaven iteration 1 has been installed on the official web server. Iteration 1? Yes, iteration 1. Our team of dedicated developers is devoted to the goal of perfecting user experience. In the next six months, expect updates & upgrades on a weekly basis. Although our current features list is quite impressive for the first beta release, we are planning to expand LadderToHeaven’s capabilities once there is a considerable pool of users. Rest assured! For those of you who plan to use this service as the sole place to keep a log of all the good things you have done, data posted & points earned in early editions of LadderToHeaven will definitely carry over to the next version, guaranteed.

Hey Harvard students! Hope exam period went well. If you’re bored over intersession and want to test out a special preview edition of LadderToHeaven, post a comment below with your name and contact information. We’ll email you more details about how you can access LadderToHeaven before its grand opening.

We are launching LadderToHeaven for the general public 2/2/08.

We are very excited to report Ladder to Heaven is on track to launch February 2nd, 2008. Final testing of the core code concluded last night. Right now, besides prepping the server and ironing out some final bugs involving the points system, things are pretty laid back. Our core development team in India and our dedicated beta testers have put in countless hours to ensure LadderToHeaven’s top-notch usage quality and reliability. Everything looks absolutely fabulous. To give you a sneak preview of the beta design, check out our final color palette:

The site is aimed to reach audience members of all ages. First time impressions from Harvard students who previewed the site were extremely positive. Older family friends from across the United States also agree.

7 days to go!

Thanks to support from Duncan Riley @ TechCrunch and Glen Stansberry @ BlogFuse, Ladder to Heaven now has its own Facebook app. From the very beginning, we debated whether or not to build Ladder to Heaven solely on Mark Zuckerberg’s popular platform. The decision to construct our own site was due to the fact that — there are huge parts of the world population Facebook is currently not reaching. Wait, what am I saying? What kind of a claim is that? No seriously. One of our main goals is to make Ladder to Heaven open to people of all demographics. I don’t know about you, but I doubt my grandparents are avid Facebook users. What if they want to post a good deed about their neighbors?

But, for those of us who do use Facebook, having a way in which we can see the good that’s come out of Ladder to Heaven is also important. In this very first venture into the Facebook development world, we are offering an application that will provide a very simple list of the latest, most praised deeds from Ladder to Heaven. Want to stay up to date with all the amazing things people are doing all across the world? This app will provide you and visitors of your profile with a stream of inspirational stories.

As most of you already know, Ladder to Heaven is currently in closed beta. We are almost there. Currently, the articles displayed will mainly cover our development process, (the entries you are reading right now). But you don’t have to wait until the launch date to install this application! If you believe in our cause, please add the Ladder to Heaven Facebook app and the deeds will automatically flow in once the site launches.

Don’t worry folks, we’re still here. In the last few days, there have been a slew of bug fixes. Right now, we are aiming to push open beta out the door late December or early January, depending on if we find any more critical issues. Most of the graphics & CSS are near completion. The logic modules behind the different components of LadderToHeaven are all finalized. Our beta team just wants to hammer out all the finer details before launch.