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What's the first thing that comes to mind when you see the word SCARY? "My Bloody Valentine 3D"? Your 401K Statement? The notion of Sarah Palin in charge of the free world in 2016?

Here's mine... As someone who has been involved in creating music for most of my life, "scary" is epitomized in that vulnerable moment when I let someone else actually hear one of my songs - my babies. And while it's one thing for me to play that new demo for my "Yes Man" buddy, or my Mom (who will proceed to convince anyone in earshot that even my most craptastic ditty deserves Grammy consideration), it's another thing entirely when I share my songs with other songwriters. Gulp.

Last week we did something akin to sharing our simple tune with the ones who write the songs. We submitted txtful to Hacker News, a social news site focused on startups and coding. With a great sense of pride (and more than a smidge of trepidation), we invited the HN community to pop open the hood, take txtful for a spin, and give us their honest feedback.

We could hear our hearts beating while we waited for that first comment. Then it came, and after a bit, the feedback began to roll in, prompting some overwhelmingly positive discussion. And okay, we admit we did the fist-pump when our submission was voted up to the #6 spot on the front page. We want to say thank you to everyone who took the time to check us out and offer such insightful feedback. We're already working on incorporating a bunch of the suggestions you made.

We're really looking forward to getting significant "developer dialog" going this year, and invite those of you with a penchant for coding and tweaking to join the txtful Developers Group. If you'd like to get way inside txtful with us, don't be afraid - we'd love to have you singing along...