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Building in Public, next phase: MVP learnings and feedback from first users of a force of one.

A force of one: one independent place for freelancers to create, share and control their best digital self, for better jobs and more opportunities.

It’s been a while but we have been busy.
My last post was about how we got our first group of subscribers to get some first feedback on our MVP. So far so good. A lot of people subscribed and we have our first users on the platform. On our platform, users are people who are creating their freelancing profile. But, to be honest, not all of our users were completing their profiles. So, we needed some more feedback on their experiences of course. What did we do?

We analyzed how people used their site, for example we used the information from our own database. We can see were they stopped creating their profile. We used feedback from our Slack group (one-on-one works best for us!). But, since not everybody uses Slack, we also used e-mail and the phone to reach out to our users😊.

The feedback actually comes down to two things: UX and information (or it this the same??). Perhaps not a surprise for a lot of people, but UX is one of the most important focus areas. For us the the workflow and UX seemed obvious, but our users clearly thought different.

For us, our next steps are to build: an easy login, smoother creation of the profile (also by using of other sites/platforms), prefill more information where possible and look at future features like integration. Plus, we’re also going to better explain our vision and strategy on our landing page. So, our job for now is: a new landing page and lots, lots of development in UX.

If you want to stay tuned, follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/aforceofone) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/aforceofone).
And do you want to know where we are working on? Subscribe on https://www.aforceof.one.

Any advice or remark or questions, please let me know, they are very welcome.

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