Stand Up: Who's hustlin' on Friday?

I will be hustling Saturday, though perhaps less than I'd like. It's brew day tomorrow, which will burn half the day but includes day drinking and steak...and a home made 10% ABV American IPA once the fermentation is done.

As for FRIDAY...

YEAR EPIC

• AutomatedApi running with at least 5 paying customers

JULY EPIC

• AutomatedApi accepting customers (on track)

YESTERDAY

• (Client) Some detail work for parent portal, mostly chores today
• (AutomatedApi) Implement last missing piece from new homepage, actually just redid the whole dang thing over a few pints, which was fun. I think it's a major improvement over the existing page.

TODAY

• (Client) get changes from yesterday linked to UI, look into a weird bug with logins
• (AutomatedApi) Put api definition storage in place, essentially completes that wizard
• (AutomatedApi) Take another pass at Stripe integration and update pricing

KUDOS:
@Aadhi for taking that plunge and working on an audience.

WIP
AutomatedApi.com

Hit and run due to a day gig emergency! Back in here tomorrow!

EPIC

• Validate idea & commit

YESTERDAY

• Shipped my personal blog and first blog post

TODAY

• Figure out my next move
• Work on a 2nd blog post - perhaps summarizing my findings re: remote work tools

KUDOS

• @jpusateri and @Davey for the support & wise words :)
• @sundaymorningcowboy for keeping that work / life balance!

OTHER NOTES
I think it's time to move on. I'm going to try to salvage the work I did on the remote-first space by writing up my learnings, but it's time to identify a new market. I'll be spending most of today likely just running through my idea lists.

EPIC

1. 2019
   • $6400 EOY - Nov & Dec excluded
2. July
   • $1600

YESTERDAY

• Outreach: Testing out a new cold email for a new niche.
• Sales: Research for lead sources & new markets for a prospect.
• Do Startup School

TODAY

1. Do follow-up call. Turn a qualified lead into an opportunity.
2. Do discovery call. Disqualify a lead.
3. Received another testimonial.
4. Follow up on a few leads.
5. Review this week call logs and take notes.
6. PT job

WIP: Envoy

KUDOS
@benparsell shipping those new routes

Epic: Get the main functionalities (happy path) for my sports analytics app working nicely by July 1st. Get app working on a public web server for testing by myself and business partner. In July, refine and fix any UI issues plus more graceful error handling.

Yesterday:
Refactored my serverless functions and added in CI/CD for deploying the backend to staging and production level public sites.
Accomplishment: stopped working at 830pm and went on a nice run plus healthy dinner.

Today:
-Bug fixes and validation for the user flows that might have been impacted by my clean up efforts from streamlining and rationalizing the BE workflows.
-Stretch goal: Get react frontend deployed on S3 buckets for static served website.

Epic: Push out my Serverless API, build out dashboard homepage for frontend

Yesterday: Pushed a few new routes

Today: Identify main collections needed to be serviced, continue building those. Look for a few open sourced dashboard templates to be able to utilize as a starter. Also identify which front-end framework to use. Suggestions for that? Will need to tie in with my API via Firebase (functions)

July Epic

• Get the Announcr App ready for live demos: 84%

Yesterday

• Messed around with adding local push notifications. Got normal scheduled notifications working, but ran out of time to keep experimenting on geofenced or location-based background notifications. It's not essential for MVP, but will stay on the ToDo list for the future.

Today

• Go through signup flow use cases to see what important features I've missed. For example, what happens if a rep creates a location to seed a community, and then the real owner wants to claim it? What if they are not available in person?

Kudos
@Aadhi for being willing to be honest with his feelings about remote workplace projects

Work in Progress
Announcr

Umm its not Saturday haha, but I'll bite.

Sorry about the looong lag!

EPIC: Launch Naminator, Bianna, Dating site by end of 2019. Have one of them gain traction.

Last ~10ish days:

Did a looot of various fixes to Naminator:

• The 'getting stuck' issue plus speed issues should be fixed (for good, I'm hoping)

• Quality of names improved a loooot. Still have some work to do here.

• Showed words from Naminator to a bunch of people looking for names - got some really valuable feedback which I'm working on incorporating.

Tomorrow:

• Finish working on version 1 new mutate feature I'm working on (You see a name you like, you hit mutate, it generates more words like that one, you hit mutate on what you like again, it learns more about what you like, the process repeats. I'm hoping this is the part I can monetize, i.e give you a certain # of hits for free, then ask for $$. )

The version 1 won't be the final version here, but its something just to get up and running.

• If there's time, work on checking domain name availability & showing it next to the results.

• I'm also thinking about monetization by reaching out to domain registrars and pitching them to pay for suggestions when a domain name is unavailable.. but I keep thinking the results need to be better for that.

WIP: https://naminator.io

Friday?

Started making my todo list for Pushup Hero. Getting back into dev after letting the downloads happen organically. Now I have baseline and excited to try and double it.