Christmas Fun! is Live

After a few weeks of exploration, discovery and heart-ache, we have finally released our first Facebook application: Christmas Fun! This app does 2 main things:

1. Provides a countdown (to the second) of the time until Christmas
2. Allows users to send/receive gifts

The whole experience has been educational. We learned about how notifications work (news feeds, profile updates, emails), how FBJS works with code and a few other things.

Within less than a week we had jumped to over 1000 users with over 3000 gifts sent! We are still working away to improve the UI and are coming close to releasing our second Facebook application!

This has also been quite different since we built the entire app in PHP which I have barely used, but have come to appreciate its scripting capabilities.