Week 2

Week 2 wasn't as productive as I hoped it would be but it was still good.

Spent the Saturday lazying around. I planned my Sunday in advance and started my day with exercise and that helped me get into the correct mindset. Sunday was a good day.

Work has occupied most of the week so I expect I'll only be able to work on things further on Saturday. I'm looking forward to it.

No luck yet with a USP although I've started talking to a few devs on this subject and have already gotten some interesting points of view. I probably need to dedicate some time soon to do some more product research. I'll likely leave that for week 4 or 5 since I'm really excited to do what I plan for Week 3.

✅ Fixed a bug with the test runner where subseuqent checks gave a faster response. After a lot of digging I managed to fix the problem although I wasn't able to verify the root cause. I suspect something down the stack of my application was caching DNS results.
✅ Users can now create, update and delete checks
✅ Simple tabular visualization of the check results
❌ Visualizations

As a backend engineer without much frontend experience, I suspect I'm going to have to put in a lot of time and effort to make my app look good.

I plan to achieve the following for week 3

Simple visualizations of check results

P.S. I'm trying my hand at sharing insights / learnings as they come up on Twitter in the hopes that it will be useful to others. You can find it on https://twitter.com/jameel263