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Monday Stand Up! Last week to complete your epic!

by Janice

Why?

That extra nudge of accountability to achieve even a small step on your IH journey each day.

To join in:

01 COMMENT on AT LEAST ONE fellow hacker's progress and give them an IH Point for their check in. Let's get in there with the encouragement/feedback! (Changing the order, because I know we can do better!)

02 Share your epic (a big chunk of work with a meaty objective) you'd like to complete by the end of August.

03 Share what you accomplished yesterday.

04 Share what you commit to accomplishing today.

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!

#daily-stand-up

Janice's avatarJanice
on August 26, 2019
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    Happy Monday Indie brothers and sisters!🔥🔥🔥🔥

    We've got some work to do in the final week and approach to month-end, so let's get it!

    EPIC
    Launch https://repobox.io to the early access list with full NPM and Composer support

    Status
    I'm on track so far. Both features appear stable, so now it's just the raw grit of onboarding.

    Yesterday

    • Wrote about some feelins! 🙌
    • Took a long hard look at my product roadmap based on feedback from customers. I've started organizing everything into separate features and tracking a count of requests per feature. I won't build anything until the expected value of that feature is above a threshold. Sad to think about as someone who loves to build, but I have to focus on the goal, and that's time independence.
    • A competitor signed up! (Horrifying orchestral music)

    Today

    • Sayin' hello to the competitor👋 - They're not on IH from what I can see, so I'm curious about how they found the product. Either way, huge fan of their work!
    • More roadmap work and planning out enterprise features

    Shout Outs

    • @Wbeard for caring about the organizational/mental health and motivation of corporate engineering teams and being especially vulnerable when asking for brutal feedback on his idea via the Twitterverse
    • @rmccullagh for blowing up his 2019 MacBook like 16 times. Frequent flyer miles at the Apple Store for you, my friend!
    jimmylipham's avatar jimmylipham
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      Thanks for the shoutout, Jimmy! Looks like you’re crushing it.

      Interested to hear more about the competitor onboarding! Honestly, you should record that as a milestone.

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    EPIC

    1. 2019
      • $6400 EOY - Nov & Dec excluded
    2. Aug
      • 1st Pilot Customer
      • $1600 in Revenue
    3. Objective
      • Double down on the sales problem to understand the customers better it.
      • Then make/test a quick MVP solution.

    YESTERDAY

    • Assess and prioritize my next actions.
    • Relaxed, cooked, and enjoyed some collard greens and cornbread!

    TODAY

    • Daily outreach.
    • Review what customers are saying.
    • Devise a hail mary plan and course correct for the week.

    BREAKDOWN
    WEEK 1:

    1. Set my Aug KPIs. Pick my primary & secondary metrics.
    2. Define a practical non-tech MVP solution to test w/ prospect.
    3. Do lead generation to prepare for week 2.

    WEEK 2

    1. Do cold calls and emails.
    2. Revised landing page copy.
    3. Ship: updated website.
    4. Lead generation.
    5. Nurture folks in my pipeline.

    WEEK 3:

    1. Daily outreach (warm emails).
    2. Review & Documentation (customer problems, docs & progress w/ customers-CRM).
    3. Revised & center my value proposition and message on the problem. done week 4
    4. Get feedback on MVP (aka me, myself and I) potential value.
    5. Iterate my pitch, emails, and call scripts.

    WEEK 4:

    1. Daily outreach (warm/cold calls/emails).
    2. Follow up w/ folks in my pipeline.
    3. Iterate my MVP: value proposition, emails, and contract from feedback & objections.
    4. Ship again..
    5. Assess & document customer behavior, data, and feedback. in progress

    WEEK 5:
    TBA

    • Revised sell sheet.
    • Iterate my MVP: website.

    WIP: Envoy

    KUDOS
    @Janice on grabbing the bag. Get it, girl!

    helengriffinjr's avatar helengriffinjr
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      (Laughing!) After my fumble yesterday, those sales may come to an abrupt stop. But I'll savor what I have.

      Janice's avatar Janice
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        Enjoy the win no matter how small! You earned your reward. Don’t let anything take it away!

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    This weekend:

    • Worked on some blog posts for content marketing
    • Did research into a new feature, and got something working, but realized I need to just clean up what I have first

    Today:

    • Going to talk to some users get feedback on the app
    • Need to clean up the UI on a users project page

    wip: makerspartlist.com

    chazie9's avatar chazie9
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      @chazie9 got any good feedback? Anything that kept getting repeated by your users?

      helengriffinjr's avatar helengriffinjr
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      What's your epic for this month or next?

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    By the 9th of September, I'll have launched early access to my Sales For Founders course, and generated $20k in presales. --> ***Achieved, yay! *** 🎉🎉

    I'll also have finally decided whether I want to say 'enrollment' or 'enrolment'. --> it's enrollment! 🎉🎉

    EPIC:

    Launch 'early access' version of course. Generate >$20k in prelaunch revenue.

    BREAKDOWN:

    Week 1: Redo landing page, record testimonial videos/welcome video, write funnel emails

    Week 2: Set up either free webinars or free video course

    Week 3: Redo course content

    Week 4: Redo course content

    YESTERDAY

    • Nada, rien, nichts, nothing

    TODAY

    • Write newsletter
    • Onboarding email to podcast guests
    • Some more planning

    KUDOS

    • @Janice on those $$$!
    louisswiss's avatar louisswiss
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      Thank you, kind sir!

      And congrats on achieving your epic well ahead of schedule! What do you think was most instrumental?

      Janice's avatar Janice
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        Thanks!

        A few things I think were important...

        • The course is pretty new, but I've been talking to my ideal customers and helping them for years now. Hundreds, if not thousands of emails and calls. So I know what they're worrying about inside out. And that means good copywriting and high conversions.

        • Having social proof from happy participants in previous cohorts

        • A new, more founder-friendly pricing

        • Working reasonably openly (I share a fair bit on Twitter and here)

        • I don't know this for sure, but I think doing the podcast has been a really good idea. Even though the production quality and frequency isn't there yet, people feel like they know me. Which makes buying a product (which is basically 'me in course format') much easier

        Hope that makes sense. I'll try and write this up properly soon.

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    EPIC
    Danger World Multiplayer Experience - https://danger.world - https://danger.world/blog/multiplayer

    We already shipped multiplayer, but there is still plenty to do. Expect a new app update very soon!

    LAST TIME

    TODAY

    • Wrap up notifications! You need to know when it's your turn.
    • I'll toss some sneak peek screenshots on Facebook.
    • Getting ready to ship.

    We're up to 261 user accounts! Still seeing a little growth even after the advertisements. I'll resume my ad campaign when v2.1.0 is ready to go.

    Taormina's avatar Taormina
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      You should try making some flyers and putting them up at bus stops near schools, might be a good way to get new users who have some time.

      chazie9's avatar chazie9
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        I've put some up near schools, but bus stops specifically are a great idea. I need to go print and cut up more flyers.

        Taormina's avatar Taormina
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      Just talked the plumber into downloading the game. He'll be trying it out over his lunch break. Gotta keep hustling.

      Taormina's avatar Taormina
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    By end of August, I'll have proven whether my online course was a one hit wonder or is a source of recurring revenue.

    EPIC
    Launch evergreen course and sales funnel, earning 5K in revenues. [$998 of $5,000]

    BREAKDOWN

    • Week 1: Complete scripts. [5 of 5 scripts completed.]
    • Week 2: Complete email funnel. [8 of 8 scripts completed.]
    • Week 3: Complete website. Set up webinar. Launch FB ads.
    • Week 4: Launch webinar. Set up premium courses. Respond to queries.

    YESTERDAY

    • Reach out to sign ups who failed to confirm their email.
    • Resend broadcast to unopens.
    • Continued slide deck for free webinar.

    TODAY

    • Finish slide deck for free webinar.
    • Set up webinar.
    • Launch webinar.

    KUDOS

    @jimmylipham for his first customer break up and great write up!

    Janice's avatar Janice
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      $998 of $5k? Get it Janice!

      Let us know how those FB ads work out for you. Debating targeting some enterprise-y customers with those and have been sucking up content on the subject like mad.

      -- Jimmy

      jimmylipham's avatar jimmylipham
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        Absolutely! Once I complete the sales funnel (this Friday), I'll share all the data nuggets!

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      Congrats on the sales so far!

      louisswiss's avatar louisswiss
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        Thanks, @louisswiss!

        Janice's avatar Janice
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    EPIC:
    Release the MVP of LocalChef.pro

    WEEK 4:
    I need to find quickly the MVP of LocalChef.pro
    Write down the personas of the users
    Write down the very specific users funnels

    YESTERDAY:
    I talked with 4 friends about LocalChef.pro, and I got some very useful feedbacks. One of my UI/UX friend gave me free vector illustrations https://icons8.com/ouch in case I want to use it. I will probably use some of them.

    TODAY:
    I will probably rework the possible user tunnel case for:

    • targeting more specific users
    • more user-friendly for users

    KUDOS:

    • @Janice for the good spirit and nice advancement on evergreen
    flog's avatar flog
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      Thanks, @flog!

      And wow! Those illustrations are groovy! (Grinning) Can we all get in?

      Janice's avatar Janice
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        you can also share them around you if you like them :)

        flog's avatar flog
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        Yeah sure, they are free to use.

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    EPIC
    50 subs for my personal blog (2 / 50)

    YESTERDAY

    • School stuff!
    • Figured out an action plan to start customer discovery

    TODAY

    • Put the plan to work - start reaching out to folks
    • Brainstorm some content ideas for the idea space I'm exploring (open source community engagement)

    KUDOS
    @Janice for getting dat money!

    Aadhi's avatar Aadhi
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      Thank you, @aadhi! Had a massive setback last night. But we keep hustlin' regardless.

      Are you thinking a space for open source contributors?

      Janice's avatar Janice
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