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February Retrospective

Short month with a short update for y'all. This month definitely went by super quick and for lack of a better phrase, completely got away from me.

Even with some bumps in the road in terms of productivity, and still feeling like I'm coming out of the haze from the holidays, the month went pretty damn well.

Ended up getting some new features out on the site, which weren't the most substantial from either the code side of things, or in terms of marketability, but not every feature needs to be something that you feel compelled to push to Product Hunt or organize a multi-tiered marketing campaign around.

That said, those little things, the things that maybe you wouldn't have thought of at the beginning of the project, or have carved out time for, they are the ones that can make a ton of impact in the later stages of a project.

These little changes that barely warrant dropping a note to my mailing list are the polish that I'm fortunate to be able to spend my time on at this point. They are part of that grit that I talk about in terms of being somewhat boring, but also the right thing to do, especially when they are things that customers are asking for.

Revenue wise, Februrary is traditionally slower for us, just after the holidays, so it's not shocking to see a negative on the month over month charts. Sometimes we look at these things too closely and end up not being able to see the forest for the trees. The forest in this case is in terms of year over year growth, which we absolutely crushed.

Side hustle to the side hustle right now has been toying around building a new boilerplate for myself to base some new projects I have in the works on. It's definitely work that I could justify not doing, but it's been extremely cathartic to build something from the ground up again, as it's been a while since I have.

It's funny too, because this process has helped to remind me that it's extremely hard to start something new. Easy to fall into paralysis over the technical stack or even where to start. Deciding what features to include and which to push off or avoid all together factor in a ton as well.

With that, I've been taking my time with this particular one and enjoying the process a bit more, which I find to be extremely healthy, even if it doesn't directly to my day to day bottom line.

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