Monday Edition: Daily Stand Up!

End of April
15 customers (current progress -- 13)

Yesterday
prepped a bunch for our YC interview
didn't do much else besides Easter shenanigans

Today
had a mock interview for YC
flying to California
hopefully lots of sleep?
last minute emails begging people to use our platform 😂

Tomorrow
YC interview in the afternoon. AKH.

Kudos to @jpusateri for planning out next steps! So important to stay focused, and I wish I were better at it.

WIP Sunshower.io

EPIC

1. 2019
   • $50K annual revenue
2. April
   • Get a remote sales job. interviews: 3
   • Do 10 customer interviews. 3/3/40 - interview/accept/ask

WEEKEND

• Schedule my next customer interviews.
• Follow up & reply to emails and messages.
• Finish the strength part of SWOT analysis. yeah, I was hung up on that part
• Transcribe March/April customer interviews.

TODAY

1. Schedule 2 sales job interviews for tomorrow.
2. Apply to sales jobs.
3. Edit/personalize/email customer interview questions to the next founder.
4. Do weakness part of SWOT analysis.

WIP Mindful

side note
So I heard a great quote today from Whitney Wolfe of Bumble on How I Built This podcast. "You can't kill ambition. You can kill confidence. You can't kill drive." This is so true. I felt my confidence was dead on sight, but by doing this swot challenge it is definitely resuscitating it.

IRT PullManager.com

EPIC

By End of April:

Full Public Release

By End of 2019:

Have this product still going and growing. Some may see that as too vague, but as someone with a few failed SaaS, this would be quite the improvement.

YESTERDAY (weekend)

Family stuff, personal stuff...a little bit of polish on the user invite system to get it out the door, and just published my approved Slack App, https://pull-manager.slack.com/apps/AGMKPUQ3F-pull-manager?

TODAY

Remove beta phrasing around the landing page/site.

Kudos: All y'all shipping and hacking

2019 Goals for Magnus Rush

• 50 Interactive Podcasts Created by Podcast hosts: (5/50) 10%
• 12k MAU for the App: (51/12k)

April Epics
(Stats from Clubhouse.io)
Milestone: Launch: 95% Complete

• [Epic] Launch Marketing: 80% Complete
• [Epic] SaaS Launch: 100% Complete DONE!
• [Epic] Mobile App Launch: 100% Complete DONE!

THIS WEEKEND

• Got together my notes for customer email call, pretty sure I know what to ask for
• Time with family and a very cold pond

TODAY

• Day job plus sidework for client
• Grab a podcast episode from the list and enhance it to show one of the SaaS users how to use the interactive features
• Make a video with the above steps
• Send video to the user

KUDOS
@sunshowerlisa for PREPPING!

WIP of the Magnus Rush podcast app and Interactive Podcast platform
Android App
iOS App

SaaS App, for podcasters, make your podcast interactive! Free account period closing soon!

EPIC
End of 2019
5 Paying Customers for AutomatedApi (0/5 - it remains unlaunched)
End of April
Re-frame my consulting site around my new strategy
Finish site template work to facilitate content marketing around dogfooding AutomatedApi

YESTERDAY (plus a couple days :P)

• ✓ build 1 new template
• ✓ finalize latest round of project updates for a client
• ✓ work latest round of 50 action items into my calendar
• ✓ finish template that has languished for a few days at 90% complete

TODAY

• put up freely available versions of my templates in public to help other .net devs get shit done faster (includes building a simple home page for the shtuff)
• write up blog post to accompany above
• School stuff and day job junk...keeping my targets realistic today

KUDOS:
@rob_race for keeping it simple and plugging along. I dig your app, tight and focused...and speaking from experience, orphaned PRs are definitely a thing. Good luck growing that.

WIP
AutomatedApi.com

EPIC

By end of 2019:

5K MR (3.64 of 5K.)

By end of April:

• Validate concept.
  First day of the experiment completed and it looks promising. Average Google Ad CTR for my industry is 2.69%. Jeanius is 19.32%. Average conversion rate for my industry is 2.81%. Jeanius is 36.81%.

(Will update after 1 week.)

WEEKEND

• ✓ Surfaced content to top level navigation - Jeans Outfits.
• ✓ Surfaced content to top level navigation - Jeans Hacks.
• ✓ Surfaced content to top level navigation - Jeans Reviews.
• ✓ Began quest for VA.

TODAY

Last week was a bit rugged on the day gig. So I've picked light and fluffy tasks for today.

• Add commenting to posts.
• Hire VA for influencer posts.
• Marinate. @csallen dropped another round of wisdom bombs in Sunday retro.

KUDOS: @pcattori for taking a look at Jeanius and throwing ideas at me for validation.

WIP: Jeanius

EPIC

• By end of April: Complete iteration 1 contract

(https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JrwxuUSi-FlwVRp2cTc4fCP-VwwwmU2K-tKn0cVCAE4/edit?usp=sharing)

Specifically:

• 5 recorded user interviews (5/5 DONE)
• 3 designs for the meal plan user flow (3/3 DONE)
• 1 paper prototype + 3 user tests (3/3 DONE)
• Build code prototype (1/1 DONE)
• Deploy code prototype (1/1 DONE)

Yesterday

✓ Conducted last paper prototype user test! (3/3)
✓ Built a code prototype that is so barebones that I'm embarrassed about it, but you know what they say about MVPs, so I count this as a success (1/1)
✓ Deployed code prototype on Github pages. Was definitely considering not linking it since its in such an early, unrefined stage, but to hell with that :P Here's the link: https://pcattori.github.io/ (1/1)
✓ Completed my self-contract on time!

Today

• Reflect and do a bigger retro for myself about how the last month went
• Take some time to draft another self contract for the next chunk of work
• ^Specifically, allot time for thinking about other problems/ideas I have with more potential upside (see https://www.indiehackers.com/Harlem/post/a8fabfd148?commentId=-Ld0sY0sNBK3TZLveOTg for the advice that made me consider this more strongly)

Kudos: @csallen for the honest, hard-hitting feedback :) that's exactly the reason I decided to start posting status updates on IH.

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