Welcome to brewvu.
This is hush hush.
If you’ve found this page then you’re probably a friend of either Jay Brooks or Jonathan Surratt and you are a twitter user that occasionally uploads a beer picture.
We’re basically in a testing phase of a new site called brewvu.com and we need your help. Here’s how you can help us.
- post a beer image to your twitter timeline via twitter, instagram, yfrog or twitpic.
- Tag that image with the #craftbeer hashtag.
- visit brewvu.com and wait at least a full minute until your image (hopefully) shows up.
- Sign-in with twitter (button in top right of any page that isn’t a blog page). Don’t worry, we will not post anything for you via twitter. (Eventually you will be able to log into the site and post images straight from one of our pages)
- vote a few images up or down (don’t worry this data will all be erased so feel free to vote however you want.
- look around for bugs (login bugs, voting or viewing image bugs are pretty important).
- comment here if you find any bugs or if things don’t work like you would expect them to work.
brewvu.com is going to be an archive for people’s beer images. There is also potential for monthly sponsored contests, “badges” and other hip social media fun. We will be rolling those things out at a later date.
When we leave testing mode we will no longer be scanning for the #craftbeer hashtag and we will purge the database of all current images/tags/votes. So feel free to just play around. Everything, including your login information will be wiped before the full site goes live. Try not to spread the word about this alpha test. After we go live with the site we will start scanning for the #brewvu hashtag.
Anything you can help with will make the final user experience better and we appreciate any help or advice that you might have.
Technically, the site is launched. Currently everything seems to be working just fine. We are basically in a sort of alpha test phase and the site is actually not searching twitter for #brewvu. During this alpha test phase we are using the hashtag #craftbeer to populate content.