K-Stash
The knowledge Factory for hardcore researchers, developers
And here it comes the tough part. Major features have been developed, along with frontend optimizations. Now it's time to make some promotion and start business related stuff.
It will be a challenge.. but I want to make it. Going to find some books and pro-tips that may help me with the promoting stuff.
Perseverance, why? I won't like this part of the process with 90% chance, so.. I will need it, ton of it.
Wish me luck!
Dev notes
I was looking for a simple, smart setup to handle new features integration and I came up with:
- git repository with 2 branches, one for production code and the other for development
- remotes: k-stash webserver (push only), github (push+pull)
- vscode: gitlens (auto push after commit), php syntax, laravel syntax extensions
When it's time to make new features go live in production, I just merge the dev branch with the master.. and that's it! No ftp, everything's tracked, you can revert changes, more people can easily work on, etc...
I never thought that this would go that far. I had really low expectations but .. it's real, 200 active users!
These have been really tough weeks but.. basic features are done, even the chrome extension is online.
Next move is frontend optimisation (so lame) and further promoting.
I almost forgot, 10 paying users too! :D
And here we go! First paying user from India, thank you buddy!
HN is bringing me a ton of traffic, atm 1k+ visits in 4 hours and 100+ users on free plan, this is insane.
Who has read the previous milestone will understand, thank you Daniel! :D
See you soon!
Features status update
- I've just wrote down the first version of the K-Stash chrome extension, that will make the creation of new resources even simpler and intuitive! Gonna test it these days and then release it.
- You can now edit existing topics
- You can check my schedule (what I have done thus far and new incoming features) clicking on "What's next" in the nav bar. Maybe this will encourage people choosing a paid plan and believe in the platform..
Marketing updates
I think that people actually like K-Stash, at least this is what I see from their comments.. and most of all, even more people are trying the free plan (hope someone'll buy the paid ones one day)!
Most motivating thing of the day: an email I got from a HN moderator saying that he's added my K-Stash related link to a second-chance pool in order to make it show up in the front page, since my first submission hasn't had much attention in his opinion (Thank you Daniel!).
Let's get back to work!
People are giving nice feedbacks about the idea per se and yesterday I got the very first user joining the platform! So happy about that!
Now it's time to improve visibility on socials and search engines and of course keep going with the good work.
Let's go!
Last week has been really intense, but I'm really satisfied with the results thus far.
ClickUp has covered a major role for my productivity, scheduling all the things to implement, giving them priorities and deadlines.
As for the Beta, core features have been implemented and critical bugs fixed, it's ready to be online.
Next step: marketing.
We all know that great part of a product development (programming speaking) is a copy-adapt-paste process. Why re invent the wheel if someone on stackoverflow has the code snippet already working?
The problem is that, the wider is your programming expertise, the more problems you are going to face, and the more researches you are going to do.
As a stack developer I have gathered something like 100+ bookmarks, with a huge hierarchy, that it is as useless as it grows up even more.
Why this? Because it's very common that I have to re-solve a problem that I have already solved, let's say 3 months ago, using a cool solution from stackoverflow. Will I find the same gold resource? Maybe yes, but I am going to lose time. And at least for me, time is valuable.
So, why not a place to store all these links and make them easily accessible in the future? K-Stash is the answer.
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