The fast money people have left and I expect the price of AIR will slowly creep up. This is extremely important ie. the 'price appreciation' expectations are now realistic. What should you do:
1) Copy and paste the said weekend post[below] and add a 'realistic' target date of completion for each stage out to December 2014
2) Change your mind re the personal emails and instead provide a weekly update on AIRcoin bitcointalk thread.
THATS IT !
Aircoin's Team intelligence & abilities are without question so if you follow the above general strategy success will be assured.
Sure, it's not like coins die in the crypto world in a few months....(light sarcasm)
Your timeline of "until the end of the year" will KILL support for AIRcoin. The implementation of the wallet features will help to make this coin stand out, and should be the first item completed..sooner rather than later. Also I agree with the earlier post that communication is paramount. Without communication, interested parties will become disinterested.
You seem to be overlooking the mining community, without the miners and pools, there will be no distributed transactions for AIRcoin. No miners=no transactions=dead coin. Sure, you can trade the coin, but where will the transactions be processed? You could transfer coins from your wallet, and wait for the confirmations...and wait for the confirmations...and wait for the confirmations. You get my point I am sure.
As for the statement that AIRcoin will not get left behind, how many coins come out weekly? And since the ideas have been presented in the whitepaper, how many of those ideas that drew people to this coin could be copied before the end of the year using the ideas that AIRcoin developed? Maybe not using the same exact strategies, but, maybe with new ones that work. Waiting, in my humble opinion, is not an option. Making less frequent communications with the community, again, not a good option. By Christmas, AIRcoin, if the dev team waits that long, will be behind 99.9% of the coins that copy the idea and improve upon it.
EDIT: As I am writing this, the net hash rate is under 84 Mhs, block time average is at 5 minutes 37 seconds. not pool, network.