oots

Today we got our first user to signup for our mailing list! We did this by sending out a blast to all the users of an old iOS budgeting app project to let them know we had started something new. We had never formally sunsetted that project, and now we have. 2 birds, 1 stone :)

Email Stats
293 sent
280 delivered
112 opened
14 clicks
1 new signup

We used mailchimp on the old project and are trying out substack on the new one. https://oots.substack.com/p/coming-soon

We have successfully built an electron app that can make peer-to-peer audio calls with multiple participants! The connection structure is mesh and essentially serverless beyond the signaling.

We have learned so much electron and webrtc, and yet there's much more to do. We'll look into adding video next.

We want to build something to generate revenue, address a real need in the marketplace, and learn technical and non-technical skills. Around mid-June we came up with the idea to build persistent chatrooms for remote teams.

When working in an office, there are ample opportunities to run into unexpected folks to exchange ideas and total ease when asking deskmates quesitons. Remote work on the other hand has no such avenue for cross-pollination of ideas. It's too formal to schedule video calls and slacking someone isn't as comfortable as it needs to be.

We will build a tool for teams to regain these capabilities!