Weekly Progress Report - A working prototype!

First off, this is a night and weekends project. So the fact I carved out 14 hours of my week last week feels awesome. That I've continually done that 3 weeks in a row after fit and starts last year feels epic. What's different? Well Building in public for one.

Anyhow, I'm posting these on Twitter and my blog (https://bryansmith.io/Interweave-Progress-Reports-Build-In-Public) but thought I'd start being more active on IH now too.

Another great week of proving that 🐢 > 🐇. It's amazing what you can do if you string enough 1 hour chunks together. That said, Interweave is still far from an MVP. Today it's basically a note taking app (and only a mediocre one at that). However, the foundation is essentially done!

That is a milestone!

On the manager side lots of audience building this week. Really excited about the progress here. But I think the biggest thing to highlight this week is progress in Jobs to be Done thinking. I rewrote the byline to the Interweave website to read:

Before Interweave: You've got too many spreadsheets, notes, and tools. You know a customer said it but can't remember where. You think you're making the right call but can't quickly show why. After Interweave: You've taken control back and now your whole team understands why things are on the roadmap. The evidence is at their fingertips.

interweaveapp.com

I wanted to highlight the customer as the hero in a journey. Where they started (pains) and what they've been able to achieve. As I was looking at ways on how to write this out I saw Basecamp's website and blatantly "borrowed" the Before/After format. It's just a v1, but I like this SO much better than the previous feature statement.

Anyways onto the report! The stats below are only things relating to audience and company building. (e.g. I didn't count my tweets on Brady beating Rogers 😂🏈)

Weekly Project Progress Stats:

• 💻 Commits: 18
• 📝 Words Written: 407
• 🐦 Tweets: 19
• ⏱ Hours Worked: 14.08 hours (~1.0 hours / session)
• 🗓 Days Worked: 5

Maker

• 🔨 Wrapped up a 0.1 version of Interview capture!
• 🪚 Refactored authorization and routes. Simpler & better.
• 🚀 Now properly hosted using Netlify 😱
• 🗺 Mapped out the high-level functionality for an MVP (!!)

Manager

• Audience building:
  • 🚀 Published 1 essay (used a launch plan)
  • 📝 Republished an old essay
  • 📝 Started a new one
  • 🐦 Published a tweet thread (using @casjam's Thready)
  • 🌊 Lots of activity on key audience watering holes
• Reframed marketing content on before/after Interweave #jtbd 💯

Lessons Learned

• 🐢 Consistency mattered. 14 hours is both a lot and not much. But constant progress, across many sessions, still equals progress!
• 💡 Major #JtbD thinking this week, realized not spending enough time thinking through Anxiety and Habit negative forces on progress.
  • Not thinking in features is HARD. Reframing language for Interweave away from it means needing to live the customers voice.

Next Week

• Achieve 50% WIP on the next essay 📝
• Introduce one more foundational component (Projects) 🪨
• Dig into one of the key major features, the evidence vault. 🔒
• Actually start on the first major content anchor 🛠