Wow. This is astounding. I happened to meet him and Dave Thomas a year or so ago, and had lunch with them at a Ruby conference. Incredibly nice and funny guy, who was really smart.
If I haven't gotten back to you, then you're on our waitlist. I've been scheduling interviews with folks on the waitlist as quickly as possible, but we're actually getting applicants faster than I can respond to them. We're working on streamlining the process and are getting faster at it each week.
I had the same experience. I understand if this is hard to do, but from my perspective it would help if I can expect to hear back from you in a few days, a few weeks, or a few months.
I think, in theory, this is really neat. One of the things I struggle with when learning something new (especially something more involved), is finding a way to put it into practice.
With that said, I think there could be a bit more description, or perhaps some examples of what I'd actually be signing up for, and how it works.
As a bit of trivium, on Chrome on OSX, auto-fill for the email doesn't work properly, and while small, it might help get a tiny bit higher conversion if that was addressed.
Thanks for your feedback. I'll fix the form in the morning but the conversion rate is pretty excellent at the moment, we're pushing 50% for some traffic sources.
I'll put the examples up also once we launch fully.
I hope you've signed up! I'm looking forward to having you on the course.
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