- Data. Ravelry contains a huge amount of user-edited and contributed content. We are still making lots of changes and improvements (thanks to TONS of feedback from beta people) to these aspects of the site. It's very important that everyone feels that our information (specifically patterns and yarns) is accurate, complete, and easy to navigate and discover.
- Bugs. We've been so swamped that I haven't been keeping up. The biggest problem here is that there are lots of outstanding Internet Explorer and Safari issues. We tell our beta testers that using Firefox is their best option, but once open the majority of our users will be on IE.
- Community features. We have a few very important features that need to be added before the # of users gets too large. We really want Ravelry to feel like a small and friendly place even after there are tens of thousands of people inside. It should always be fun (and easy) to meet and connect other Ravelers.
- Performance. The site is built to scale and we are prepared to build it up and add servers as needed. However, there are lots of things that can be improved and now that we have a couple thousand testers, it's much easier to find and stamp out the bottlenecks.
- Feedback. We're having trouble keeping up with the feedback from the 2500 users that we have now. We have to streamline things a bit, make improvements to the forums, help to improve the wiki/user's guide.
- Advertising and other plans for earning money aren't in place yet. We'll need to spend more of money on servers and hardware when the site is open to the world and we can't do that until we have some money to spend.
