I'm still trying to keep too many plates spinning - Weekly backlog 2020/17

Most of my products started as relatively easy and small tools but with time, some of them reached a point where adding a small additional feature takes at least a day or two. I am already in this situation with Story View and Gift Hunt, Discount Hunt is on this path as well. My only problem is that I can’t spend all my time writing code all day. I have to create educational and marketing content, I have to try different distribution channels, etc. Everyone is saying that these are the things that makers should spend most of their time on instead of adding extra features to their products and writing code. And I’m trying to avoid that, but it’s hard.

Anyways, last week I added two new features to Gift Hunt. Both of them were in my backlog already and a customer also mentioned that he is really looking forward to them so I tried to roll them out as soon as possible. Because of the reasons mentioned above, implementing these features took a bit of time and once I was ready I also had to write some tutorials on how they work. So I spent most of my time last week working on these.

Thanks to my girlfriend I also added some long-tail SEO content to Story View and Discount Hunt. For her, writing content is as easy as for me to write some code. While I spend a day writing an article, she can do that in a few hours. And the result is much better as well.

I think I'm going to ask for her help in the future too :) Especially because I have a lot of content related tasks on my todo list for this week.

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Todo for this week:

• Create more “how to” content for Discount Hunt - after rolled out the new features
• Create more educational content for Gift Hunt, Discount Hunt, and Story View
• Auto play stories feature for Story View