hedgehoglab

It has been a very quiet 2 months on the lab blog as we go through a hectic phase of growth and changes at the lab HQ. I wanted to take a minute (or 30) out of our frantic schedule of product development and daily grind to provide a quick update of what's happening at hedgehog lab.

Office Move

When we started hedgehog lab 2 years ago, we had a grand vision of the type of office we would like to work in and the nature of office space that would enable us to get the best out of our employees. Unfortunately, as a bootstrapped company, we had to make compromises with the space due to restrictive costs and company size. In some ways, we just got comfortable with our current office and decided to cram as many people in as possible, so we could focus on the business at hand.

Fortunately, hedgehog lab is going up in the world and both our revenues and employee count has increased steadily in the past year, which meant we needed to re-assess the space we had and look for a larger space that suits us. Anybody who has undertaken an office search knows that this is a painful and drawn out process, and it took nearly 6 months to find our ideal office.

Therefore, I am pleased to announce that the lab will soon be moving to new premises at The Kiln in Hoults Yard in Newcastle. Hoults have some fantastic space with all the right facilities and have a great team to back it up with exceptional service. I would recommend anyone looking for new office space to try them out.

The Aerons have been ordered and the IKEA furniture delivered, so we will be moving our postal address in the coming 3 weeks. Keep an eye out for pictures on our blog of our new office.

New employee

Ever since we launched hedgehog lab, we have been very keen to enter the mobile space and bring our unique blend of enterprise understanding and user experience love to the table. However, our product strategy and existing demands meant that we were never fully able to make mobile products a core strategy other than dabbling in bits and pieces of R&D.

I am please to announce that with our most recent hire, Jonathan Williamson (or Jonny as we call him!), we now have a full-time mobile developer and the making of our dedicated mobile team at hedgehog lab. Jonny will be working on defining our mobile strategy and on a mobile app or two that we will be announcing soon.

Products update

We have been firing on all cylinders in terms of our product development roadmap with massive progress being made on both fixx and solomon. Due to current customer demand, fixx has been prioritised a bit higher to resolve key bugs and implement some exciting new features. We are working hard on fixx 1.9, which is another feature loaded release after 1.8.

The original idea was to stop new feature development at 1.8 and continue with 2.0 but customer demand and the increasing popularity of fixx has meant that we wanted to deliver some key features in the 1.x stream.

Unfortunately, this means delays in getting a beta of solomon out but rest assured that solomon is not vapourware and the heavy interest and demand for this means that, quite honestly, we cannot afford to not release it soon.

As always, keep an eye out on our blog for more updates as soon as we settle into our new office space.

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