Back a year ago when we set out to create Webpop we took an important decision:

No matter how tempting it would be to just grab some existing blogging engine and whip up a quick blog and a landing page, we just wouldn't go that way. The Webpop blog would run on Webpop from day one.

Now, writing a simple blog engine is not a big deal. When I first picked up Ruby on Rails I wrote my first homemade blogging engine in a day or two.

But a single user blog, with rigid structure and a few basic forms for posts and categories is one thing. A scalable multitenant system with unrestricted access to every single line of html and css, hosted serverside javascript extensions, custom content types, built-in version control, dynamic resizing of images, domain registrations straight from the project screen, integrated SEO tools and a sleek on-site editing interface - now that's a different beast altogether!

During the last year our whole team has made an incredible effort to take all of this from idea to reality. And here we are, finally ready to launch the Webpop blog and start showing the world what we've been building.

We've been running a small controlled beta test for the last 4 months and we're now ready to start sending out invites in greater numbers, so make sure you sign up for the beta and reserve your spot.