Biweekly Retrospective | January 21st, 2021

Inspired by @yehuda's post about building in public, I thought it would be good to start sharing your learnings every 2 weeks.

Information that you share could be extremely valuable to someone down the road.

Tell us:

• What you're working on.
• What went well.
• What didn't go well.
• What you're going to do next.
• Any questions you have.

👋 I'll go first.

Ironically, I'm building Retro - agile retrospectives made easy.

What went well

• 9 newsletter signups! 🎉
• Got a lot of marketing work done.
  • Fixed the site's description
  • Switched off of MailJet to Mailchimp
  • Posted my first blog post on Medium & Dev
  • Sent my first email newsletter
  • Lots of posting on IndieHackers :)

What didn't go well

• I'm not sleeping enough, I think I need to take a day off soon.
• The post on Medium & Dev BOMBED. Barely any traffic.
• Didn't get much product work done. I'm migrating from GraphQL to Firebase which has been time consuming.

What I'm going to do next

• Take more breaks!
• Stop posting on Medium & Dev. Twitter and IndieHackers is doing well for me.
• Block off some time to finish the API migration from GraphQL to Firebase. This will allow me to get more features done.

Questions I have

• Should I host my own blog at blog.retro.app? Will this increase my acquisition numbers?