Unfortunately we had a delay with some issues relating to billing aspects of our system (as an Australian company charging in US$ across the 3 major credit cards was a lot trickier than we anticipated from a merchant facility point of view).
All has been resolved and launch of new website, new version of system plus release of pricing plans should not be too far away.
Thanks for your patience.
Kevin
Australian Anthill magazine invited me to write an article about my experience at the TechCrunch50 Conference in San Francisco and my thoughts on Silicon Valley.
You can read the article here.
Kevin
Hi All
We know that it has been sometime since you heard from us.
A brand new website and announcement of pricing plans will happen within the next 2 weeks.
Thanks for all the ongoing support and feedback.
Team spellr.us
Hi All
We thought we would give “crowdsourcing” a go - here is a copy of the new website - a draft.
We would love positive, negative, any other comments that you make.
Click on the above for a full page but comment here. 
Kevin
Hi
Well James and the team have been hard a work making some significant improvements and refinement to spellr.us.
We will be releasing a new version in about 10 days. There have been some terrific UI changes and some amazing tweaking of the spell check engine - more on the new features on release.
We will also be releasing pricing plans in about a week.
Accounts will remain free for the time being.
Thanks for all the great feedback - keep it coming.
Kevin & the spellr.us team - Sydney Australia.
spellr.us officially launched today at the TechCrunch50 - 2008.
TechCrunch50 is a conference put together by the highly respected technology blog TechCrunch.
The Conference has the most incredible line-up of panelists.
It has been an honour to listen to such highly experienced and capable technology start-up experts give their opinion on a range of topics.
TechCrunch selects 50 applications to present at The Conference main stage and a couple of hundred to present in the “demo pit” spread out over 3 days.
spellr.us just missed the final cut but was offered a place in the Demo Pit.
Considering over 1000 companies applied we are quite proud of being invited into the Demo Pit.
I spent the day presenting spellr.us to dozens of people - including journalists, bloggers, investors, developers, and students.
The response from some was vague and indifferent, but generally people LOVED the application.
A highlight was getting to meet Mark Cuban.
Mark Cuban is the worlds 113th richest person and a highly respected entrepreneur. He also holds the record for the largest ecommerce transaction ever - paying $40 million for his private jet when purchased over the internet.
I gave Mark a quick demo of spellr.us - he asked to scan his personal blog - he grasped it really quickly and wished us luck!
If we have 1/100 of the luck of Mark we should be fine
We also got to meet Jason Kincaid who is the author of the first (and second) TechCrunch article about spellr.us - which in many ways was what really kickstarted the mass interest in spellr.us.
We scored some blog / article mentions:
- one of the bloggers I demo’ed spellr.us to.
- ZDNet Article - congrats to Melbourne Cinergix for making the top 50!
- iTnews article
- smartcompany article
Below find some photos and videos taken on the day.
All in all the vibe at the conference has been great and I think I now have just as many American and Israeli (Israel was heavily represented at all levels of the conference) friends as Australian ones 
We are very proud to announce that spellr.us was chosen as a TechCrunch50 Semi-Finalist.
Today we are launching and showcasing our product in the “Demo Pit” at The Conference.
spellr.us will remain free for the next month or so.
Please feel free to register and scan your site.
And as always we love feedback on the system.
Thanks for the great suppot from The Team in Sydney and all our Beta Testers.
Kevin @ The TechCrunch50 in San Francisco (picturesand videos coming soon)
I wonder why?
They do have terrific Mexican food here after all!
Kevin
Well well well.
I did a search on Google for spellrus and low and behold - a desktop spellchecker (a competitor of sorts) came up with an adword.
This competitive company are directly targeting people who search for spellr.us.
I always take it as a compliment when a competitor (in whatever form) takes notice. I do however think it is very uncreative marketing to just target a competitor’s search term on Google and throw an Adword at it.
Whilst I see the value of desktop applications under certain circumstances the benefits and elegance of SaaS (software as a service) are significant. As long as our execution is spot on - I remain convinced that our target market would prefer this type of application as a web based tool.
Good luck to our competitors, competition is healthy, but I hope they get a little more creative with their marketing techniques!
Kevin
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