A year ago yesterday, I dropped out of my Master’s program. A year ago today was my first day in the office working on The Point.

Today, on The Point’s first birthday, we’ve grown to ten full-time employees: four developers, three community organizers, a PR director, a COO, and me. If you’ll allow me to indulge for a moment, it’s been unbelievably cool to watch a team develop around what started as an innocent, reflexive response to a frustrating problem (an inability to cancel my cellphone contract).

So what’s happened since last December?

• Spent most of the first month by myself writing a business plan
• Our lead developer joined in the end of January and decided to write The Point in Ruby on Rails
• In March, we completed a basic prototype
• In April, we started rebuilding The Point from the ground up to allow for some of the more complex functionality, for example, conditional user identity revelation
• Our original target launch date was July 1 — that didn’t happen
• We released The Point to the public on September
• Press outreach began in mid November

Thanks to everyone who’s given us support and guidance along the way. We’ve got some great stuff coming up in year two!

-Filed in The Point