Awesome project!

Can't wait to see this go live on an exchange. Is there a way to buy coins now apart from the Market forum?
I hope to see it on an exchange soon too. The coin launched only three days ago, so I doubt it will be on any exchange until at least the mining pool is up.
How can you mine it before a pool is released? Solo mining only?
Yep. Or if you have enough mining rigs, you could setup your own mining pool, but you'd have to know a good bit about crypto to do that.