TGIF Stand Up! What will you get done today?
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!
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
Congrats on stepping out of your comfort zone. What's your top tip for stepping out and talking to real users?
Mindful Goals looks great. I’ve been using ‘Habit List’ for years. Mostly happy with it minus a few gripes.
what works well and what doesn't?
My top tip is:
Prepare a question list, 8 - 15 questions related to the problem. Don't even have to memorize them. I wrote them down and tell the interviewee I'll be asking them some questions.
That way it's easier to manage the fear of running out of things to talk about with the users and wasting their time.
The questions should all be around the problem itself, and make no attempt to prescribe a solution to the user. That way people can really help me brainstorm instead of telling me: i like this, i don't like that - things I already know.
"The questions should all be around the problem itself, and make no attempt to prescribe a solution to the user." — Great point. Thanks.
What works well with Habit List?
What could be improved?
They don't allow you to add habits that you want to do N times a day. I hacked together my own solution by entering 'Listen to 3 Podcasts' instead of expecting to tick off 'Listen to Podcast' three times.
Overall, I love it and probably use it more than any other tool.
Very impressive that you can keep a streak for 1k days lol. How many minutes do you spend on the app every day?
The screen time app is showing an average of 20m a day.
And to be fair, I allow for catchup/backfilling if I ever miss a day :)
EPIC
Launch https://repobox.io to early access customers with full npm and composer support.
Yesterday
Today
Shout Outs 🎉
@maxshash of DeployPlace fame for really grinding at it and getting a retargeting campaign set up that drove a lead back!
Epic
Publish B2B SaaS Marketing Playbook
Yesterday
Added SSL — Thanks for the suggestion @DavidGetchel
Today
Complete Chapter 2 Draft — Content Marketing for B2B SaaS Founders
Great content! Read the table of contents, looks like these insights might be useful even though I'm not building a SaaS. However I can see that you've got a lot of other playbooks on the website, is there a particular one you would recommend for a marketing newbie?
Thanks! I agree. A lot of these strategies go beyond B2B SaaS.
I noticed that your working on carmakernews.com. In terms of recommendations, I've only looked at a few companies outside of B2B SaaS. (Google, Uber, Amazon and Tesla)
I haven’t done anything on content creators or media companies. I think the industry is fascinating. I think newcomers are niching hard. They're not trying to boil the ocean. Their audience knows what to expect from their point of view. And this bodes well for targeting and ad-supported models.
EPIC
YESTERDAY
TODAY
BREAKDOWN
WEEK 1:
Set my Aug KPIs. Pick my primary & secondary metrics.Define a practical non-tech MVP solution to test w/ prospect.Do lead generation to prepare for week 2.WEEK 2
Do cold calls and emails.Revised landing page copy.Ship: updated website.Lead generation.Nurture folks in my pipeline.WEEK 3:
Daily outreach (warm emails).Review & Documentation (customer problems, docs & progress w/ customers-CRM).Revised & center my value proposition and message on the problem.done week 4Get feedback on MVP (aka me, myself and I) potential value.Iterate my pitch, emails, and call scripts.WEEK 4:
Daily outreach (warm/cold calls/emails).Follow up w/ folks in my pipeline.WEEK 5:
TBA
WIP: Envoy
KUDOS
@irid for completing his User Interview Field Guide.
SIDE NOTE
value proposition = problem statement
Now understand that a value proposition is stating the problem you're committing to resolve for someone. Today === > > > Envoy aka Helen gets dev studios projects, not bad-fit clients. Great feeling to have clarity on how to deliver on your purpose. Combined w/ my personal mission to conquer setbacks, create opportunities... I'm pretty excited about the future.
If you're struggling (trust me, I still got my problems) make 1 decision each day that'll positively impact your next best day and future self.
Wow, love the amount of data & your revenue (already!) here. From what I can tell, you're turning what you love doing in business into a product. Good luck :)
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.
BREAKDOWN
Week 1: Complete scripts. [5 of 5 scripts completed.]Week 2: Complete email funnel. [8 of 8 scripts completed.]YESTERDAY
Not much. In transit. But, did more testing with ads.
TODAY
KUDOS
@bhann for heroic outreach! Impressive!
Epic
Yesterday
Today:
EPIC
50 subs for personal blog (2 / 50)
YESTERDAY
Not much :(
TODAY
Continue to research analytics for SW teams idea
KUDOS
@jimmylipham for the customer dev work!
Keep at it! What's your audience?
EPIC:
Release LocalChef.pro
YESTERDAY:
I deployed a staging and prodution of localchef.pro . Available at https://localchef.pro/ . I observed couple of details and bugs to be fixed / changed.
TODAY:
I will write one blog post. I found many subjects thanks to trends.google.com :) And I will fix one or two details on LocalChef.pro to be more user friendly.