I had a revelation while I was going through this tool review sprint. I was wrong, I was sprinting in the wrong direction.
My understanding of the value of this project was that the reviews themselves and their smart categorisation were the most important.
However, when I started to consider the actual needs of the tool-builders (people that create those tools) & makers (that use those tools for their projects, side-hustles and startups), it came to me:
it should all be about community 🙌 💯
Because without community, makers & tool-builders won't have the support they need. The reviews are still very important, but they only exist to better serve our community, to help makers pick the right tools and offer precise feedback to tool builders.
This revelation changed a lot, including the required website features pre-launch and thinking about how I could serve this community of makers & tool-builders the best!
The launch date was initially planned for in 2 weeks, which I will try to respect.
Stay tuned; some very exciting updates are coming up, like the complete rebranding of Lunch Softs to a new identity 🔥 ✨