Can you say you are shutting down a product if you haven't launched it? - Weekly backlog 2020/03
On Monday, I just received a notification that one of the domains I purchased last year is going to expire. I purchased it for the second product I built in 2019, which I haven’t launched till today. And it’ll stay like this as I'm not going to renew the domain. The main reason behind my decision is that the core feature of the product is to store collected user information in a Google Spreadsheet and the recent changes around Google APIs made me feel that building a product on top of their ecosystem is probably not the best idea. Going through their review process took almost 3 months because I’m using a sensitive scope to create and access Google Spreadsheets. That scope soon will become restricted which means my life won’t get easier 😅
I have another product that is built on top of 3rd party APIs (Instagram API) and I’m afraid, something similar will happen with that as well. We’ll see.
I’ve got 5 new job alert subscribers for CreativeDevJobs 🎉 and based on the information in Google search console, the number of impressions and link clicks started to slowly increase. At the moment, probably it has nothing to do with the long tail SEO subpages I created previously but posting new positions on the site almost every day.
I’m also happy to say that I got the second customer for Discount Hunt and a new store installed the app during the weekend 🥳
Todo for this week:
The list is shorter this time as publishing the results of The Maker Report will take a few days.
- Publish the results of the Maker Report
- Publish a blog post about why I’m ditching yearly goals in 2020 (haven’t completed it last week)
