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Who's hustling? Thursday Stand Up!

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 September.

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 September 5, 2019
  1. 6

    EPIC
    Publish chapters 3-6 of the B2B SaaS Marketing Playbook by the end of September.

    YESTERDAY

    TODAY

    • Send update and chapter summary to email subscribers
    • Fix mobile UI bug
    • Finish draft of Chapter 4 — Social Proof Marketing for B2B SaaS Founders

    KUDOS
    @Janice I’m looking forward to checking out the landing page!

    1. 2

      I Love what you're working on!

      1. 1

        Thanks a lot Dave! :)

  2. 5

    By the end of September I plan to build the front end of uidesigndaily.com and upload 900+ designs.

    YESTERDAY
    I finished designing the share button and modal window on the post page and implement it with HTML and CSS ( I also wrote my first click event listener :D )
    Here's how it looks: https://www.uidesigndaily.com/posts/5d6d28de4e9c2800127d57ba

    TODAY
    Design the license page and build the HTML and CSS

    1. 2

      Slick site design. Good work!

      1. 1

        Thank you! 🙂

  3. 4

    Some recent news on the client front. One of the clients wants to give me some ownership in his product (essentially a partnership I suppose), and I think the product has huge income potential. He's also realistic about exit, which means I have options. It's an education adjacent product and has confirmed demand. Also, he's realistic about my time commitments so I think it can actually work.

    SEPTEMBER EPIC

    • Get AutomatedAPI up to Stage 2 REST support in Richardson Maturity Model
    • Write 5 posts

    SINCE LAST TIME:

    • updated/wrote 20 of the bigger changes to my code generators. Way ahead of my target for the week there.

    IN THE PIPE:

    • wrap up the code generators (6 left)
    • test and deploy
    • start template project for posts so I can try it out with the generator upgrade
    • gotta start thinking about updating the documentation

    KUDOS
    @ildiko welcome to the show

    WIP
    AutomatedApi.com

    1. 1

      That sounds juicy!

    2. 1

      Thank you! Congrats on the partnership!

  4. 4

    EPIC

    By the end of September, I will have 10 paying customers for each of my IndieHackers listed products.
    💙 joinjukebox.com
    💛 trybestow.app

    BREAKDOWN

    Week 1: List Projects in Directories (Indiehackers, Pioneer, and WIP)
    Week 2: Show High Fidelity Prototypes of each Project
    Week 3: Finish YC Application, On Deck
    Week 4: Attend workshop in Brooklyn

    YESTERDAY

    • Emailed the founder of the landing page builder I am using because I am having trouble with the stripe integration
    • Submitted Startup School Update
    • Sent a note to the Festicket team to become an affiliate for joinjukebox.com

    TODAY

    1. Continue to fix the Stripe integration
    2. Write out the scope for each project

    KUDOS

    Everyone on this thread @ildiko @Janice @vimalin keep up the great work

    1. 3

      I like the specific sales centered goal.
      Mostly see goals here that go sideways at that target with content and seo stuff.
      Good luck.

  5. 3

    EPIC

    1. 2019
      • $6400 EOY - Nov & Dec excluded
    2. Sept
      • 🏆 TBA
    3. Objective
      • TBA

    YESTERDAY

    • Daily follow-ups.
    • Do 2 discovery calls.
    • Do customer interview.
    • Work on Sept OKRs/KPIs and EPIC
    • PT job

    TODAY

    • Daily outreach.
    • Do biz dev chat w/ past customer.
    • Scheduled next week discovery calls.
    • Clean office desk from my tornado aftermath
    • Finish setting Sept OKRs/KPIs and EPIC
    • Edit call transcripts.
    • Brain dump into customer problems doc.
    • Startup School group session.

    BREAKDOWN
    WEEK 1:

    • Set my Sept OKRS & KPIs.
    • Brain dump... accumulated a lot of info in my head, docs & folders.

    WEEK 2-5

    • TBA

    WIP: Envoy

    KUDOS
    @dru_riley shipping updates to email subscribers
    @ildiko welcome to the family
    @tdbryant2 for holding it down w/ Startup School

    1. 3

      Thank you! I am glad to be here 😊

      1. 2

        Yeah, you're in good company. 😉

  6. 2

    EPIC

    • Release new macOS product on Apple App Store
    • Release Vimalin 64 bits for macOS Catalina

    YESTERDAY

    • Started on adding content to the database for "new app", added 200 items.
    • Tried to contact the author of the retired site that I use to quickstart the database.

    TODAY

    • Adding more data to the database when travelling. Spending most of the day at a customer site. So not much time for hustling today.

    KUDOS
    Kudos to @ildiko for a fantastic idea on designs.

    1. 2

      Thank you! I am glad you like my idea :) Keep up the good work!

  7. 2

    EPIC
    By the end of September, I've found some cool shit to build for my first iOS project.

    BREAKDOWN

    • Week 1: Determine criteria for "cool shit". Brainstorm "cool shit". Complete landing page for "cool shit" idea #1.
    • Week 2: Brainstorm "cool shit". Validate (or not) "cool shit" idea #1.
    • Week 3: TBD
    • Week 4: TBD

    YESTERDAY

    • Finish criteria for "cool shit".
    • Finish mock up of iOS idea #1.
    • Write list of benefits for idea #1.

    TODAY

    • Finish landing page design and content for desktop.
    • Incorporate Converkit form.

    KUDOS

    A warm welcome to @ildiko! Have a selfish reason to hope you stick, as I look forward to leverating your resources!

    1. 2

      Ooh. @ildiko also asked me to share my "cool shit" criteria:

      01 I'm excited to build it.
      02 It'll do some good in this world.
      03 I'm able to find KGRs specific to the idea.
      04 I'm able to do something better than/different from the competitors.
      05 I'm able to find and target the audience.
      06 I'm able to justify a subscription.
      07 I'm able to generate sufficient sign ups to justify the ad spend.

      1. 2

        Thank you @Janice ! I am glad to hear you're interested in my resources :)