Wow. Thank you everyone who has showered Crohnology with so much love and support over the last couple of weeks.

As some of you know, two weeks ago, the blog post I wrote about Demoing Crohnology at Medicine 2.0 went viral. Within a couple hours of posting, it blew up to #2 on the front page of Hacker News. Literally overnight, it was viewed by over 15,000 people. Mentions about it and Crohnology.com ripped up Twitter. I got hundreds of direct emails from patients all over the globe wanting to join the Crohnology beta. My email inbox was flooded with more beta sign ups than I could ever have imagined. It was so rapid, I could hardly keep my website's email service provider up. All of this felt absolutely amazing. =)

The best part was the overwhelming flood of warm and positive emails, comments, and feedback. This indicated to me more than ever that there is clearly pent-up need by patients around the globe for a site like Crohnology. I cannot wait until I can release it to you all. Thank you so much. You've filled me up with so much motivation, and touched my heart.

The door to the Crohnology private beta is opening, just slowly. I'm letting in people to the rate at which I can manage their feedback and learn from them. I had no idea so many people would sign up--thank you so much for your overwhelming response. The beta is so far going amazingly well, and I'm working as fast as I can to get everyone in. With that in mind, I'm looking for developers that want to help.

I encourage you to take a look at the passionate and insightful discussion that the blog post spurred on Hacker News. 

By the way, demoing onstage at Medicine 2.0 at Stanford went absolutely fantastic. It was amazing to spread the word of Crohnology to hundreds of doctors, researchers, journalists, and other patients. I am told that a video of it will be released soon. As soon as it is, I'll post it here.

As always, you should follow Crohnology on Twitter and Facebook if you aren't already. You can follow me (Sean Ahrens) directly at @seanahrens. Thank you.

I send a huge thanks to the following people for helping me out during that crazy crunch time that followed the Hacker News coverage: Sasank Mudunuri, Ryan Weald, Molly Reisman, and Marcio von Muhlen. You are amazing. Thanks so much. And another huge thanks goes out to all the people with Crohn's & Colitis, their friends and family, and other amazing people that have shown so much support for this project. You keep the fire burning in me to keep on.