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Tuesday 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! (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

on August 20, 2019
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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.

    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

    Not much. It's been tough to hustle while on vacation.

    TODAY

    Launch the FB ads. By any means necessary.

    KUDOS

    @jpusateri on the soft launch!

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

    Yesterday

    • Engaged with some members of the wait list. It turns out maven support is something that people are interested in.
    • There's an industry term for what I'm doing, and its "artifact hosting"
    • I learned how much the current maven implementation sucks (to the point where you have to fill out a JIRA ticket just to get a package submitted) -> Opportunity!

    Today

    • Working more on maven support to try to make java package publishing and installation as simple as possible.
    • Tinkering more with the idea of a podcast. I got great feedback on Twitter, but like any product validation, not going to do it unless I have 5 episodes planned and decent feedback.

    Shout Outs

    • Thanks to @DavidGetchel for completely destroying my body yesterday with https://randomhiit.app πŸ’ͺ πŸ’ͺ πŸ’ͺ
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      Love the business model that this enables. From the customer's end.

      Wondering who are 2-3 of your dream customers?

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        Thanks Dru!

        I agree that the convenience of purchasing software assets and easily being able to drop them into your integration/deployment pipelines and keep them up to date is something that isn't really focused on in the current space.

        2-3 dream customers

        1. Taylor Otwell with premium composer packages like Laravel Nova
        2. The guys behind the BulletTrain Ruby SaaS package
        3. taskforce.sh (They make a nodejs frontend for queue management)
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          This is awesome. I was only aware of Mike Perham from Sidekiq doing something like this.

          These models are intriguing. Would love to do case studies on them at some point.

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    AUGUST:

    YESTERDAY (Last nightm late πŸ˜–):

    • Got the View / Edit popup modal done for workouts. Can now view a recorded workout after save and from the "My Workouts" list. Looks NICE! Just to add the edit functionality in now.
    • Few tidy ups to UI
    • Some tweaks to code and refactoring some of it in preparation for offline functionality.

    TODAY:

    • Not sure if will get much done but what i'd like to:
    • Edit workouts from view popup / modal
    • Hook up the delete function to the view modal
    • View workouts popup / modal from dashboard
    • Get started on the social sharing functionality.

    KUDOs:
    @Brickster for the launch πŸ˜„

    11 days til my scheduled release of https://trackmylift.app . It's creeping up very FAST lol

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      Workout tracking is a good thing to tackle! Is it going to be a web app or smartphone app?

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        It is a web app as a PWA. Lots of updates on my socials if you check the product social page over there πŸ™πŸ˜ what you think?

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          It's looking slick! I don't currently lift, but could see myself using it when I do.

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            Just saw your sign-up there and it didn't click with me before I sent an email. πŸ™‹β€β™‚οΈ

            Thanks for the great feedback @DavidGetchel really appreciate it. How did you find the flow and process from sign up to being directed to app? And do you think the add to home screen prompt / popup was clear enough? Thanks again

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              It was straight forward. The only thing I noticed when signing up was it wasn't a natural "load" after I submitted my info. I didn't see an indication for a few seconds that anything happened until the popup. The home screen prompt was great though.

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                @DavidGetchel that's amazing feedback thank you.

                Funnily enough, adding a loader icon to the create button is actually on my backlog items of bugs 🀣 so this is good thank you so much!!

                Awesome! Happy with that! Really appreciate it. Did you see the view workout screen aswell either by creating a workout or clicking into a saved one? I was in 2 minds whether to re design this screen haha

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                  After messing around with it for a few more minutes, here are some thoughts. All three "headers" seem like they should be buttons. "Add workout" with the plus icon doesn't do anything, but I clicked it thinking I could add an exercise.

                  "My workouts" I thought I could pull up previous workouts. I see that there is a toggle that does that below.

                  I've got more, but they're small things.

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                    Not yet. Editing is on my backlog list for tonight/tomorrow night πŸ‘πŸ» Thanks for that!

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                    That's a nice observation dude, I'll maybe consider re styling these then 😊 I'm happy to take all your other feedback aswell!

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                      The date format for those in the US. "Add exercises" in the view workout section doesn't seem to work. Is there some way to edit a workout to add/remove moves?

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        I literally just use decent hash tags and follow audience-specific people on social media and engage in posts. Seems to be working so far.

        I'm using stripe for payments in my PWA.

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            Sometimes, yeah. I try to keep the posts straight to the point though to try and avoid that

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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

    • Edit transcripts.
    • List customer problem statements.
    • PT job

    TODAY

    • Edit transcript.
    • Review a prospect's personas again.
    • Propose strategies to prospect.
    • Update customer problems doc.
    • Edit value proposition message to center on the problem.
    • Follow up w/ folks in my pipeline.
    • PT job

    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. in progress
    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 & website from feedback & objections.
    4. Ship again.
    5. Assess & document customer behavior, data, and feedback.

    WEEK 5:

    • Revised sell sheet.
      TBA

    WIP: Envoy

    KUDOS
    @Janice @ItsSteve good luck on your FB & Reddit ads!

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      Thanks, @helengriffinjr! I've definitely some work to do!

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    Epic
    Publish B2B SaaS Marketing Playbook

    Yesterday
    Completed draft of Chapter 1 β€” Micro Marketing

    Today
    Publish landing page for B2B SaaS Marketing Playbook

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      First time in IH stand up? Welcome to the party!

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        Yep. Thanks! πŸ˜„

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    • Epic - Publish Novella
    • Got a positive comment from @jimmylipham after he used Random Hiit. I realized that audio wasn't working in safari and focused on trying to get that fixed.
    • Get sound to work in safari for web app, screen unlock and refresh
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    I'm gonna dip in and out of here, and post at the group level from time to time. I'd really like to see that feature on IH used more. I think it could be a good thing overall.

    EPIC

    • Launch (done) and reach out directly to 200 people (0/200)

    DONE

    • soft launch complete
    • started documentation site

    TODO

    • craft emails to 10+ people (need to buckle down on this to get done but I'm optimistic)
    • set up blog so I have a place to post semi-real-time updates
    • write documentation for simple api for new users to the site

    KUDO
    @jimmylipham nice product, been looking for something like that with nuget too

    WIP
    AutomatedApi.com

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      πŸ’₯πŸ’₯πŸ’₯Congrats on the soft launch!πŸ’₯πŸ’₯πŸ’₯Any notes, thus far

      Also, you mentioned you might know some folk interested in my online class... Any chance of sending 'em this way?

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        Thanks, no big notes yet. But I can say that just going live re-frames the work from an engineering perspective. Everything feels smaller, which is good because it clears mental overhead so I can focus more on the sales bits. For the foreseeable future, updates should be small and quick, so I can push them out pretty frequently to keep improving on the product.

        As to knowing interested folks, I don't know them personally that was more a friend of a friend situation, but I can reach out and try to send some people your way.

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      Hey Jim,

      Thanks a ton for the shout out! Nuget is definitely on the roadmap after mvn (currently in progress).

      I really want to know more about what you're up to with AutomatedApi.com, so I've followed you on Twitter. I'd love to discuss it more. I've tinkered with a few ideas around the OpenAPI spec and sort of a "click and integrate" strategy from a generic perspective, curious about how that intersects with what you're up to!

      -- Jimmy

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    EPIC
    50 subs for personal blog

    YESTERDAY

    • Just responding some engagement on Twitter

    TODAY

    • Scope out the reqs for a potential article on IPNS & Pub Sub
    • Work on an IPFS-related side project (cli-notes)

    KUDOS
    @Janice for trying to hustle on vacation!

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      Thanks for the encouragement! Where are you at on the 50 subs?

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        Still 2 / 50 :(

        It's been a tough month time-wise since I've been ramping up at school. I haven't achieved any of my infra goals, though the one article I pushed got pretty good traction.

        On the bright side, I think I have an idea that I can move to MVP stage - so I'm excited about tackling that in Sep!

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      I think its awesome that you're doing an IPFS related project! I'm thinking of picking one up soon for an idea I'm toying with.

      How are you liking it thus far?

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        IPFS is cool, but there are some real fundamental problems (i.e. get latency) that make it really tough to imagine use cases.

        I'm more or less just going to keep experimenting to see if there are work arounds that could be implemented.

        The idea I'm running right now is a CLI-based notes app. Lot's of interesting problems already that I'm working through :)

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      Welcome tot he stand up party! (What's FIN?)

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      Cool concept! Where do you get your source of gigs?

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