We just pushed out version 0.9, which is a big, big update to the system.  This release includes several upgrades to our back-end architecture (allowing larger jobs), a Java API (allowing programmatic access), an easy-to-use job form (allowing easier access), and a bunch of other cool things!

Here's a list of the specific features:

• Large crawls are now supported.  Crawl up to 10 million pages per job!
• The API is officially released.  Submit jobs, download results and much more using Java.
• A much easier-to-use job form.  We realized the old job form was a bit clunky.  The new one is much easier to understand.
• To go along with the new job form, we've updated the entire portal to be easier to navigate and use.
• You can now load in external JARs into your 80Apps.  This lets developers use third-party code more easily.
• Several improvements to the crawler, including:
  • Options to select your type of crawl.  Choose among fast, comprehensive, and breadth-first.
  • Crawler now crawls https:// pages.
  • Crawler tries to fetch a page more than once before giving up.

Since we just released 0.9, I suppose that technically makes us 0.1 from a beta exit!  Some of the upcoming features are:

• Finalizing the payment system in preparation for beta exit and charging actual money.
• Providing useful default 80Apps for all users (this is also in preparation for the app store model we'll be pursuing).

See full release log details at http://80legs.pbworks.com/Release-Log.