The last week has been a whirlwind. Rather than doing this project on my own, I'm set on building a team to work on it. With that in mind, I posted on Reddit ( https://www.reddit.com/r/cofounder/comments/mxrycu/usatech20_fullstack_developer_looking_for_design/ ) looking for a design co-founder.
About a dozen people replied or messaged me saying they were interested. I got on a call with a few of them and was surprised to find 3 people that were perfect for an initial founding team. Along with my and my wife, we have a solid 5-person foundation.
We all met up on May 1st to officially kick off this project. Nathan, our UI/UX designer, led us through a user journey exercise. The result of which was a direction for us to head with our initial round of user research.
With that in mind, the 5 of us are reaching out to Goodreads users to conduct user research this week.