Timewise
Instant calendar analytics for busy managers
I have been personally curating these tools for some time in my notes and also used many of them in 2019 to try and become better
I even used some extreme steps like completely giving up on smartphones and used a Nokia 3300 feature phone for 5 months! :D The toolkit is a curated list of all the tools I used, and the practices and tips that worked for me.
2019 was a great year for me on becoming more productive and hope this helps others too!
Postmortem of https://timewise.how launch
🎉 ~ 350 signed up users
🚀 4209 visitors
💸 5 users donated 39$ in total
This was great fun! I am now doing a deep dive into other problems around running teams, productivity and scheduling. Need to figure out the holy grail of recurring revenue - of course donations arent doable
- A lot of sustained traffic from PH and hackernews launch
- Maintaining old relationships is very important! I personally got in touch with 100+ old contacts and said hi hello to them without any agenda.. it gave me a little FOMO that I know so many amazing people in my life but I dont stay in touch with them
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The final 2% polishing takes 20% of the effort! So much goes into figuring out the edge cases and stuff. And it can be a little defeating to worry about the small details, but thats what count!
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Its important to stay in touch with friends and your network, otherwise just spamming people on launch day makes you look like an ass!
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Its important to stay in touch with friends and your network, otherwise just spamming people on launch day makes you look like an ass!
When you say "stay in touch with friends and your network", do you mean keeping them up-to-date on the progress you've made so far with the product?
- Sent it to a few slack channels I was part of
Learnings
- Launch faster is a big learning
- Making an app work on local vs production are two different beasts :D
- Remember to always take care of edge cases
- I need to train my "launch" muscle.. delayed it for a few extra days without any reason. Just wasted time adding non essentials like favicons and other stuff
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Congratulations!
I also have a product for productivity of meetings (focusing on the action items.)
I could use those Slack groups myself :)
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learned coding on my own over few months!
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tried to solve my own problem; I did calendar analysis every few weeks to see where my time was going!
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interviewed a few other managers at tech startups to see if they have same problems
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built something over the weekend, shared it with friends, and then took the next 10 days evenings to sort out the bugs!
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