**Tuesday Edition: Daily Stand Up!**
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 February.
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!
Turns out scheduling client calls is less predictable than a checklist might suggest, this is gonna be about regular contact that drip feeds clients until they hit me with a request.
EPIC
[Project]Q1 AutomatedApi in alpha
[Personal/Professional] Feb/Mar >50% income replaced with freelance work that leverages AutomatedApi
YESTERDAY
TODAY
KUDOS
@marianneciara - welcome to the best show in town :) Can't wait to see what your're building.
WIP
AutomatedApi.com
[also a pending consulting oriented personal page redesign]
Thanks for the warm welcome! I look forward to following your projects as well :)
EPIC
[2019] 24 Product challenge
[Product] Launch Markdown beta (Feb)
[Product] Launch Investor Intelligence (Feb)
I'm actively shipping products to find traction, fit and affinity. So far it's been a win. Each of the 4 I've released to date has been top #1 or top #2 PH of the day!
YESTERDAY
Moved launch to Wednesday, got surprised one of my team members is back to NYC from India! s/o Santhosh!~Write an article for PushToStart blog~
~Code payment workflow for I.I. project~
TODAY
Call/email most active users on my https://slides.ai project, get feedback. Current MRR is $650, want to get to $700. Project is only few weeks old.
Prep monthly newsletter
Read and edit submissions made to my blog
Thanks again!
Congrats on that awesome MMR! What techniques did you use to capture your first sales?
I've built a LOT of products over the years. Customers create success, features kill it. When I stopped focusing on my great ideas and more on customers understanding of the value I was presenting it began creating revs.
In the case of slides... we launched on PH with a digital street team. The street team crew was extremely crucial in helping with the launch. That drove amazing traffic. By landing #1 product of the day, you end up getting even more traffic on the following days as other independent sites cover your PH success.
Further PH features you in their daily newsletter which brings more traffic to your page. Even after launch day, we continue campaigning to get votes on PH because there are more traffic surges and cross-marketing opportunities for the product of the week and product of the day. Those spikes improve your discovery surface.
While we're live we use intercom to connect directly with our audience. We try to get as much feedback as we can. While PH traffic is very positive and motivating it can be a false positive. So we took the most common themes customers were saying to us (which was notably different than our perspective of value) and crafted a sticky headline to post on HN on day 2 or 3 depending on day of week to Hacker News, if you know how to use it can be INSANELY GOOD for launch traffic.
With HN it's all about quality and karma and knowing the right story prefix to use. HN drove is 2000 people in a few short hours. Unlike PH, HN's comments are very strongly opinionated. However, there is revenue on the other side if the value in your product is very clear.
Early into the second week after launch, betalist and betapage are also good resources. We publish there because it continues this wave of traffic.
Having top positions on these launch sites since Jan 2019 have personally driven 13k on the low side and 30k on the higher side of users.
Transactional email is important. If you can't automate it, please don't bypass it. We get notifications on slack for every sign up and copy the email address and manually write personal follow up for users. We learn things, look to help users and try to deliver the best customer experience.
Twitter DM's are your friend. It really does go down in the DM. 😉
Don't downplay SEO/SEM. Take real backlinks seriously. Publish thoughtfully on sites and track your backlinks and domain authority with ahrefs. It's an amazing tool. Use google search console. Your best users are going to come from search. Those are peoeple looking for you!
@Harlem -- I should have TL;DR'd this reply 😉and to think, I've had medium-writers-block. Couldn't think of any good stories. Perhaps I turn this into my next medium post! Thanks for that!
2019 Goals for Magnus Rush
February Epics
Yesterday
Today
Kudos
@RyanHickman and @marianneciara joining the madness
WIP
https://magnusrush.com/beta
How did you know that a competitor checked out your app?
When I posted an article about my project on Medium, their CEO put the link in the company Slack channel. Their product guy reached out and also signed up for the beta. I only have a small number of users and was up late working on the server when he came through. I track everything
01: EPIC
Design, build and deploy a small ES6 web app which helps small business owners and start-ups to respond to support queries.
02: YESTERDAY
Yesterday I laid out the objectives of the project, the basic functionality required for MVP, jotted down possible future implementations, started mapping out data so that I can go into the design phase with a realistic idea of the app's architecture.
03: TODAY
Research similar web apps for UX and design inspiration. Design at least two concepts in Sketch.
Ooh. Is this a help desk of sorts? What will be your differentiator?
Unfortunately it's a lot simpler than that! It's basically a tiny web app that gathers a little information from the user about their customer enquiry and helps them structure an email based off of that information. Essentially it's a pet project to practice my ES6 skills, get a real-world web app out there and hopefully offer a little bit of help to business owners who struggle with customer support along the way :)
EPIC
By end of 2019:
100 paying customers. 5 earned to date.Still trying on for size. This definitely makes more instinctual sense given the lifestyle I'd like to achieve by February 2020.
5K MMR
By end of February:
* 50 qualitative first chapters published by women. 19/50* 25 submissions and/or third chapters written. 9/25Still trying on for size. Have added metrics so that these epics may be measured.
YESTERDAY
TODAY
KUDOS: Shout out to @RyanHickman for joining the stand up party!
WIP:
Happy EndingsThe strike-through hurts less than I thought.Kudos to you for keeping this going! I've enjoyed reading it for a while now! Excited to start participating a little more.
Most excellent! I look forward to your updates!
Checked out your WIP, love how clean and sleek the site feels. The name is genius of course. It sounds like you know your way around marketing it as well and are very methodical in your approach. Looking forward to following your progress!
Thanks, Maria! And I'm excited you've joined the start-up party! Welcome
Hey, couldn't find an email for you, so dropping this here. Thought it might interest you:
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/dipsea
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/12/6/18126382/dipsea-app-porn-erotica-stories-millennial-women
I've seen 'em. They've done a brilliant job of PR! I look forward to following their progress! (Thanks for thinking of me!)
EPIC
Get a good chunk of droppingcoin.com user/site management built for new user registration and configuration.
Yesterday
New tweaking of the landing page and connection to MailChimp for pre-launch e-mail list.
Today
Finish up tweaking of landing page and get back to EPIC.
Work In Progress
Continue work on building out the MVP for DroppingCoin.com.
01: EPIC
By the end of Feb:
Get feedback from at least one potential user (preferably from a larger org)
(feel free to reach out if you're interested in the world of Technical Debt/TODOs/Agile stuff)
02: YESTERDAY
Added Google Analytics, and put polish on a few things, created a demo user and set up some data to let people get the basic idea without linking their own Github Account.
03: TODAY
WIP: https://todotracker.io - Any feedback is greatly appreciated!
I'll be honest, when I saw another todo app, I was skeptical. But I love the idea that you're attacking technical debt! That's definitely a unique take. I think you should change your branding to reflect such. And two, do a better job of explaining how you track and quantify such. I wasn't able to gather such from your ATF content/
Thanks! I've been working to try and find the middle ground between simple/clean and tells you everything you want to know, and it's definitely been a challenge. This is something I really want to nail before showing it to more potential customers!
01 - By end of Feb 2019, I'd like to complete 1 Technical TODO, 1 new feature, and 1 Marketing TODO.
02 - Today, I submitted orders for ad images for a Facebook ad A/B test, using Fiverr.
03 - Tomorrow, I will run the Facebook ad A/B test.
04 - @jpusateri - very cool product, liking your agency/client calls approach
05 - WIP - https://simplepay.link
thanks :) I'm pretty proud of what dev I've accomplished on that.
I'm always iterating on my task organization, I'm particularly enjoying that separation too. I find my mornings are better for code and after work hours are easier for me to do emails and customer contact in. That separation is helping me prioritize better.