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title: Widgetfinger Is Go
teaser:
tags: news,web,widgetfinger
author: Chad Pytel
published_on: 2008-05-09
---

A long time ago, I posted [here, about our upcoming product,
Widgetfinger](https://thoughtbot.com/blog/a-widget-for-your-finger).  To
refresh your memory, Widgetfinger is **Simple Content Management for Simple
Websites**.  Its a content management and hosting service specifically built for
design firms that includes normal hosting as well as email, and statistics and a
few other things that we think are pretty helpful.  If you're a small design
firm that builds what we call Brochure websites (Home, About, Services, Contact,
and not much else) then widgetfinger is built for you - and [you can signup and
start using it for free today](http://www.widgetfinger.com).

At the time, it seemed like the release of Widgetfinger was imminent - we had
successfully started hosting quite a few websites in it, we successfully moved
our own website and email hosting to Widgetfinger, and everything was going
well.  Well, this has certainly been a lesson for us that client work can easily
derail the best intentions of our own product development.

All that said, we've been incrementally improving things since that time,
expanding its use to more websites, and the time has come to really get this
show on the road.

So, I'm happy to officially launch Widgetfinger - [the website for Widgetfinger
is online](http://www.widgetfinger.com), and you can signup and start using it
today!

I'll keep this post short, and plan on posting some more info on Widgetfinger in
the near future.  Suffice to say, we look forward to hearing your feedback as
you start to use it - we will continue to improve it based on your feedback.
And if you're just a normal rails developer and are thinking Widgetfinger
doesn't apply to you - you're probably right - but we'll definitely be posting
here about some of the tech used in it, or the things we've learned along the
way.