Soft play's first comparison website...now live, over to you!

Back at school, I remember running a Blue Peter ‘bring and buy’ sale and after many weeks of preparation, we flung open the doors with a mixture of excitement and nervousness to see if anyone would visit and if they did, what would they think?

I mention this because today is the day that the covers come off, the day we open the doors and launch http://www.shareandcompareplay.com/, the world’s first independent comparison and information website for the soft play industry; the feeling of launching something new that you believe in is indescribably exciting and yet so similar to that simple bring and buy sale.

It was the 21st April 2008 when my wife and I first discussed the possibility of creating what has become shareandcompareplay.com. What you will see today is not exactly what we envisaged; it has become a whole lot more because of the talented people that have contributed and the collaborative nature of the creative and technological process we have utilised.

We decided quite early to take an increasingly popular approach of ‘rapid prototyping’ that involves releasing software in Beta http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_version#Beta so that our community can contribute to the development process and take the project in the direction that they find most useful…it also means that we rely on you to feedback on what works (and what does not), what you like (and what you do not) and then keep coming back because we are going to be evolving everyday.

I would like to say thank you to the many contributors to date but now is where we hope the fun really starts, over to you.