Friday Edition: Daily Stand Up!

by Janice

Friday 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 March.

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

on March 1, 2019

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Unfortunately, I didn't achieve my February goals, so I'm moving those to March.

2019 Goals for Contact Journal
- 100 paying customers (/month). Currently 0.
- 1000 happy customers (MAU). Currently 99.
By end of March
- Create a video showcasing the app, for use on the website and on the app store
- Publish a new landing page with updated content + a video.
Yesterday
- Worked on a small update to allow In-App promotions for subscriptions. Hope this helps with ASO.
Today
- Published update to App Store.
Learn more

If you can spare a few minutes, give it a try and share your feedback. Much appriciated!

iOS app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/social-contact-journal/id1186696582?ls=1&mt=8
Website (WIP): https://socialcontactjournal.com/

*Kudos *

@everyone, Good luck with your goals for March!
@Harlem, Happy birthday
wousser

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  Thanks for the birthday wishes... (Grinning) And as for not making February goals... you're in good company! Here's to crushing our epics in March!
  
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  Your goals sound a lot like mine from last month - landing page/video. I find it very easy to procrastinate on those :)
  
  I'm an Android user so can't try out the app, a little video would be cool to get an idea of how it works.
  
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  Checked out your website — based on the screenshots you posted it looks like your product would be handy for introverts like me to nurture my friendships :)
  
  Is that how you would describe your target market?
  
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    For everyone who wants to improve their networking skills. Can be used for families, friends, in a professional setting or for any other community.
    
    Thanks for your support!
    
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01: EPIC

Design, build and deploy a small web app which helps small business owners and start-ups to respond to support queries.

02: YESTERDAY

Figured out Webpack file loader issue — it took longer than expected but I can reuse the configuration on other projects. Built and styled half the page.

03: TODAY

Planning to wrap up page mark-up and styling, then move on to building the data structure and logic behind the app.

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  Cool. Are you going to have a WIP to show off any time soon? :)
  
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    In the next few days — looking to get some of the logic in there first so it's a somewhat useful prototype :) Thanks for reading!
    
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EPIC
1. 2019
- $50K annual revenue
1. March
- Get a remote job.
- Get 20 people to say this is not a real problem & reject my value proposition.
- Get 10 customers to confirm a real problem.
- Schedule customer interviews/calls.
YESTERDAY
- Apply for jobs
- Prioritized the next tasks for the 1st week of March.
TODAY
- Quantify past work into sales metrics for resume, LinkedIn & job applications.
- Draft responses to common job application questions.
KUDOS
Happy Birthday @Harlem 🎂🎈🎉Party like a rockstar 💃🏾

WIP Mindful

side note
Mini-pause on Mindful during 1st week, so I can:
1. Separate my founder problems from the business in order to make better decisions.
2. Make my job hunting less stressful.
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  Thanks for the B-Day kudos! And kudos to you for your divide and conquer approach! Smart!
  
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Ah to be 30 again like @Harlem...

2019 Goals for Magnus Rush
- 50 Augmented Podcasts: (4/50) 8%
- 12k MAU for the App: (0/12k)
March Epics
Milestone: Soft Launch: 33% Complete
- [Epic] Launch Marketing: 37% Complete
- [Epic] SaaS MVP3: 46.3% Complete
- [Epic] App MVP3: 10% Complete
Yesterday
- Early start on March Epics
- Added transcriptions for voice comments into the Podcast detail page
- Added Delete button for voice comments
- Added some new marketing tasks to March Epics
- Created routine to add new podcasts in the platform to the Promoted Podcast space in the app
Today
- Weekly 7 hour pilgrimage to MA and back to NH, app testing time
- Do a second pass on the virtual currency economy
Kudos
Pending

WIP
Android App Beta: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.magrush.speech1
iOS App Beta: https://testflight.apple.com/join/BOG412aL
SaaS App Beta: https://magnusrush.com/app
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  All that mess above is me trying to remove my misplaced reply thread on someone else’s status post :(
  
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    I was like WTH? (Chuckle) Happens to the best of us! Congrats on the betas!
    
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EPIC:

By end of March:
- Continue push to get out of beta.
  
  Need to quantify this and set an expected end date this month.
- From January(!): Solidify next steps for getting some beta users and feedback.
- 3 new blog posts.
- Create a new release.
By end of February:
- Push a new landing page with updated content + a video. (Gonna be a couple days late, but mostly got there)
- Create a proper blog, convert old entries and post a couple new ones. (Done)
- From January: Solidify next steps for getting some beta users and feedback. (Semi-punted)
- Continue push to get out of beta. (Continued, need to make this a SMART goal)
Past however many days:
- Video almost done (procrastination is strong!)
- Oops. Secured some stats stuff and home page was loading but prompting for a password :-P
- Some base work on file storage (minio.io is pretty cool)
Next few days:
- Finish video by tomorrow and push new landing page.
- Gonna give betalist another try. If it's not accepted this time, I'm giving up on them.
- File upload work.
WIP: https://brisaboards.com
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EPIC

By end of 2019:

5K MR

By end of March:
- Launch 11 March 2019.
- Publish 18 blog posts.
- Conduct 3 landing page experiments with a minimum CTR of 2.69%.
- Increase organic growth from 0 to 11 persons.
- Persuade an additional 15 influencers to contribute posts.
YESTERDAY
- Reached out to influencers.
- Brainstormed other mechanisms to generate substantive content with minimal effort.
- Made decision re Happy Endings.
- Defined success criteria and epic for new project.
- Added new influencers to the queue.
TODAY

Birthday shenanigans continue, but we'll see what I can finish this morning.
- Complete influencer template for posts.
- Add new influencers to the queue.
- Commission illustrations.
KUDOS: Saving it for the monthly retro!

WIP: ~~Happy Endings~~
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    You posted your standup as a reply to harlem's :-P
    
    That's cool that you have a weekly drive that gives plenty of testing time! Are you thinking of adding bitcoin or something, or by virtual currency, do you mean the conversion of $ to tokens spent in-app?
    
    Side note: Not sure if this should be a high priority use case, but I use google's Project Fi cell service, which charges $10/gb of data. So Download/auto-download new episodes is important to me :)
    
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    I joined the iOS beta. Good luck! Some feedback from a first-time user:
    
    Feedback
    
    Update your app icon to follow the guidelines. Make it more attractive to first-time users and to spark interest when users see your App Store page
    
    Don't ask the user for permission (Speech and location) when you haven't introduced the app. Why should I give permission if I don't even know what the app will do? How will the app help me?
    
    Same for an account. Don't make me create an account in order to continue. At this stage, I haven't even seen the app yet.
    
    Account creation. The text is very small on iPhone8, and I expect it to be even smaller on iPhone X. Suggest to use the standard UI components to show forms.
    
    I can't use the keyboard to switch input fields
    
    Input data is very strange. When selecting the field, it shows another input field above the keyboard to input the data. Please use standard components.
    
    No feedback when successfully created an account
    
    First impressions of home screen
    
    What is points? Why do I have 1000 points?
    
    Text is too small
    
    Featured show image is pixelated
    
    Home tabbar icon is not active
    
    My Stuff icon is not consistent with other icons
    
    Podcast screen
    
    Why is there a rocket flying?
    
    No feedback when subscribing
    
    There are too many icons, what should I focus on?
    
    Back button too small
    
    Tabbar is still visible
    
    I don't understand the value of recording a voice memo for me, or for the podcast host? How will the host hear this? What can I do with it? What is the value?
    
    Pressing play on the recorder results in UI issues
    
    I like the car mode function, this is something of value and often an afterthought.
    
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