Daily Stand Up! (Need Mid-Week Motivation? Join In!)
Why?
That extra nudge of accountability to achieve even a small step on your IH journey each day.
To join in:
01 Share your epic (a big chunk of work with a meaty objective) you'd like to complete by the end of September.
02 Share what you accomplished yesterday.
03 Share what you plan to accomplish today.
04 Give kudos to at least one of your hacker mates!
05 [Optional] Share your Work In Progress to underscore your accomplishments!
Then tune in the tomorrow to share how you did on your own tasks!
Triumph! Final epic accomplished as of Sunday night! It's all gravy from here!
EPICS:
By end of September:
✓ Users are able to view any first chapter of any author.
✓ Users are able to view any author of any teaser.
✓ Users are able submit a second chapter for any first chapter.
✓ Users are able to accept a second chapter for any the first chapter they've written.
(Stretch Epic) Two users are able to add additional chapters privately.
YESTERDAY:
Began building mocks for tales.
Began integrating endpoints and logic for tales.
TODAY:
Clean up submissions and deploy.
Continue to integrate endpoints and logic for tales.
KUDOS: Pending others joining in!
WORK IN PROGRESS: https://app.happyendin.gs
EPIC: By end of OCTOBER, I plan to have a full product ready for launch, informed by my continued conversations with people and feedback from the small beta.
Yesterday Had another direct response and sign-up to the beta from a cold-email! Taking a lot of time to find perfectly targeted people and express the value prop clearly and succinctly seems to work! Also got a surprising amount of food for thought from a colleague that likes the app.
Today Meet with a former political journalist to chat about the news media landscape, how journalists may want to use my product, etc.
KUDOS to @Harlem for finishing her epic early!
WIP https://newsbie.io
Ooh! Nice! I like the journalist target! If you can share, I'd be curious what y'all brainstormed ...
(And thanks for the kudos. Who knows? I might actually finish building this beast!)
We chatted about a ton of things...
the very clear and powerful financial incentives behind most decisions at media orgs
that the industry doesn't have a whole lot of money to spare (so B2B with pros at these orgs could be challenging)
how futile it seems to "fix" the news media. But agree it's a space that can benefit from interesting, new tech solutions
Build specifc, clear, easy-to-use tools for journalists, e.g. a gauge of optimality that swings back and forth as user types a headline/tweet
machine learning is worth a try, could really change the game
and a bunch of unrelated stuff....
Nothing here terribly surprising. But still useful to reinforce. (Woe to the publication that didn't include at least one Trump story for the day.)
Still intrigued, though, by the "easy-to-use" tools for journalists. Given the broad definition of "journalist" these days, that could be a pretty big bucket!