When I set out to start this little software company, I swore to myself that Sifter was a marathon, not a sprint. While I've done a pretty good job at staying true to that oath, I'd be lying if I said that it was easy. Balancing time between customer-facing features and back-end refactoring and upgrades is difficult.
http://nextupdate.com/blog/archives/2009/06/quietly-refactoring/We'll only send emails for significant product announcements, and those happen every couple of months at most. Of course, we won't give away or sell your e-mail address either.