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**Tuesday Edition: Daily Stand Up!**

by Janice

Tuesday Edition: Daily Stand Up!

#daily-stand-up

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 January.

02 Share what you accomplished yesterday.

03 Share what you commit to accomplishing today.

04 Comment on at least one fellow hacker's progress and give them an IH Point for their check in.

Optional:

05 Share your Work In Progress to underscore your accomplishments.

Then tune in the tomorrow to share how you did on your own tasks!

Janice's avatarJanice
on January 29, 2019
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    EPIC

    By the end of February

    • Get Vimalin for Fusion at the same level as Vimalin for Windows

    Marketing

    • Have paid users for Vimalin for Windows. Releasing the windows port was the epic for January, getting paid users is next on the list.

    YESTERDAY:

    • Updated backdrop of twitter account to take the windows product into account
    • Tweaked download page
    • Vimalin for Fusion, locate areas of breakage due to port to Windows and document those

    TODAY:

    • Vimalin for Fusion, continue with my changed code evaluation for the macOS port.

    KUDOS
    Kudos: @samlevy welcome at the daily standup

    WORK IN PROGRESS

    Automated Virtual Machines for VMware desktop products https://vimalin.com

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    EPIC
    By end of 2019:

    100 paying customers. 4 earned to date.

    By end of January:

    • 💥💥💥100 first chapters published. 113 published to date. 💥💥💥
    • 50 qualitative chapters published. (Will provide update after I finish pruning.)

    YESTERDAY

    • ✓ [Growth] Do shit that doesn't scale.
    • ✓ Respond to the awesome IH feedback.
    • ✓ [Retention] Chat with customers.
    • ✓ Think about epic for February.

    TODAY

    • [Growth] Implement low-hanging fruit discovered via customer feedback.
    • [Growth] Do shit that doesn't scale.
    • [Retention] Respond to customers.
    • [Retention] Prune published first chapters.
    • Nail down epic for February.

    KUDOS: @BobAleena for creating a useful Chrome extension!

    WORK IN PROGRESS: Happy Endings

    Janice's avatar Janice
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      What non-scalable things are you doing for growth? What's working out?

      AntCas's avatar AntCas
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        I'm manually contacting chicks on competitor sites and asking them to republish their work. Questionable tactics, for sure. And perhaps even more questionable once I automate the process.

        I'm alternately racked with guilt and "by-any-means-necessary". But it's working. What's your take?

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          I wouldn't personally be hung up on stepping on a competitor's toes. Especially if they are well established websites.

          From the viewpoint that author's should own and control the content they produce, I don't feel there is a moral issue with this tactic as long as you're re-publishing with the author's permission.

          If you were re-publishing without permission, that would be very different and not at all OK. You should also watch out that you're not putting the author's in a situation where they're breaking a previous contract they signed.

          The best would be to get them writing original content on your site, which I'm sure is the goal. Are they staying on your platform after they've gotten the first taste of it?

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            Thanks for chiming in!

            To be clear, I'm absolutely not posting on behalf of potential customers. And... my site is a dating app, not a publishing app. I've asked chicks to simply publish a first chapter. They could use a prompt for all I care! (Although their own original work is infinitely better!)

            As for the stick... too early to tell. But despite the sausage fest, potential matches are starting to interact with each other. February will be an important month to see if I can bring more chicks to the yard and I if I can encourage more interactions...

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    EPIC

    By end of 2019:
    100 Users for ScheduledMemo.com: 3/100
    10 Paying Customer for AutomatedApi: launch pending

    By end of January:
    LAUNCH ScheduledMemo.com DONE!
    Re-evaluate tasks for my other two projects and refocus on Automated Api

    By End of February:
    Refactor some ScheduledMemo code into more reusable parts so I can shift it into Automated Api pipeline.
    Get Automated API up and running with a limited Alpha group.

    YESTERDAY

    ✓ Updated all azure functions in the backend to follow slack distribution guidelines
    ✓ extended email functionality
    ✓ published website and set up SLL with LetsEncrypt

    ✓ Cut fancy email templates...its supposed to be a simple unobtrusive too for myself and freely shared for now so simple is better imho

    TODAY

    Post a more formal launch announcement on IH
    Launch Scheduled Memo on Product Hunt
    Begin Reviewing tasks for AutomatedApi
    Provision VM host and start staging Automated API artifacts for testing.

    KUDOS: @vimalin for creating a useful tool that I would never have had the guts to go for.

    JUST FINISHED: ScheduledMemo.com

    WORK IN PROGRESS: AutomatedApi.com, WallabyVault.com

    jpusateri's avatar jpusateri
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      Thanks @jpusateri I really hope that Vimalin can help many people.

      For me it was a logical step up from helping people at the VMware forums. Something which I have been doing for over a decade on a daily bases. As a result I do tend to know a bit about VMware Virtual Machines and because of that I also knew that a backup product was missing for the VMware desktop products.

      Having said that, I have no idea if Vimalin ever takes off...
      For the moment I am dedicating my time on extending and improving the product.

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    By the end of 2019

    • 50 out of 500k+ podcasts on-boarded into the Magnus Rush platform
    • 12k MAU for the App, out of 4M “avid” podcast in-car fans

    By end of January

    • SaaS MVP 1 86% Complete
    • App MVP 1 90% Complete

    Yesterday

    • Created ‘Car Mode’ UI for drivers
    • Added Easy Action list for short term solution to multiple Easy Actions on the same time stamp
    • Added subscriber-specific functionality

    Today

    • Bookmark titles
    • Finish IAP implementation

    WIP
    https://magnusrush.com

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      How are we looking on the epics?

      Janice's avatar Janice
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        Day job blocking me, still pushing!

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    EPIC

    Indie Hackers | Worldwide

    TODAY

    Final push for signups and for votes on the discussion topics, hope to see some of ya'll there tomorrow :)

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      Good luck!

      Janice's avatar Janice
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        Thank you! It went really well!

        I'll be posting something about it tomorrow.

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    EPIC

    By end of Jan:

    • Have my personal blog live with mailing list.

    By end of Feb:

    • Publish an online coding course.

    Yesterday

    • 80% finished with design & coding for the blog.
    • Finished drafting the first post.

    Today

    • Install GA & setup a tracking goal for mailing list opt-in.
    • Join Mailchimp & integrate their opt-in form.
    • Draft the copy for "about me" page.
    • Figure out privacy policy for GDPR and the like.
    • Research more online coding course topics & course platforms.

    Work in Progress

    • Personal blog & mailing list

    Kudos to @jimbol for going out of his way in the last standup to ask his friend for advice on a subject I'm interested in.

    Anyone have advice on privacy policies that factor in mailing lists? (Or might this not be the right place to ask questions?)

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    I know this is generally an early in the day thing, but it feels more right for me at the end of the day. :)

    EPIC:
    February 18th - beta

    Today:

    • testing framework extension
      I spent a good 2 hours today working on parts of the extension that were not absolutely necessary for the beta launch. I have a really bad habit of wanting things "right" that don't need to be right at the moment. I'm a little frustrated with myself.

    Tomorrow:

    • start implementing generation of GraphQL Mutation in php project

    Kudos: to everyone for holding the course and being here to support each other

    WIP:
    https://github.com/xaddax/behat-graphql-extension

    iampersistent's avatar iampersistent
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      Do what works for you! (Smiling) Perhaps I should just call it Stand Up!

      Janice's avatar Janice
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    EPIC

    • Alpha release on February 15th

    YESTERDAY

    • Animations on the authentication component
    • Front end meeting about upcoming pages

    TODAY

    • Rewrote some parts of the front end framework, now it has mega fine grained control over animations
    • Implemented the forgot password component animation (one more thing missing)
      A demo of animations on the old client authentication vs the new client authentication here https://youtu.be/lzv1griaBRs

    KUDOS
    @helengriffinjr for keeping at it during the trickier times

    WORK IN PROGRESS
    https://www.scrumbs.app
    All the Scrumbs related repos on my GitHub

    andreigaspar's avatar andreigaspar
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      Thanks, bruh! @andreigaspar, I checked out your site... nicely done my friend. As you gear up for the alpha what nice surprise have encouraged you and team?

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        Hey thanks! Still hoping for the nice surprise, but it's encouraging to see it come alive :)

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    EPIC

    • First 5 customers by Feb 15

    YESTERDAY

    • Update launch page w/ copy edits & feedback
    • Ship launch page

    TODAY

    • List 25 potential customers
    • Email/update personal professional network
    • Draft sell sheet
    • Devise marketing/pre-sales plan

    KUDOS
    Hey @iampersistent, nice to meet ya! Shank, my 1st IH follower.

    WIP Mindful

    side note - got some family news Sunday that finally hit me yesterday/today. So I'm gonna push my EPIC date as I adjust & prioritize. Gotta love life's surprises.

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