October is here! What progress did you make in September?

Time goes by so fast. On the 1st of every month, I look back on the previous month and take a look at what I've accomplished (or failed to 🤦).

What were your goals when September started and what did you accomplish?

For me, my goals for September were:

  • Add sales web pages for my app, Eager.app
  • Polish out the existing UI
  • Minimize adding features
  • Finish learning Flutter so I could develop the mobile version for the app
  • Add more documentation

How I actually did…

  1. I moved from Wordpress to Hugo. I honestly have forgotten why I did this now. It wasted about 1-2 weeks of time because I ended up redesigning the whole thing. Ended up improving some of the sales web page. It's not completed and a whole bunch of screenshots that should be there are still missing…
  2. I did improve the UI. I use my own app (it's a customer support help desk), so little things that bug me gets fixed quickly.
  3. I didn't add as many features in September vs August, but still I spent more time here than I'd like. A big part of it is that the project's scope was too big from the onset.
  4. Did not have time to finish learning Flutter 😔. In fact, didn't even touch it at all.
  5. Added about 4-5 pages of documentation. This is way lower than I anticipated, which was about 1 article per day.

So what about you? What did you get done? Share below 👇

This September, I did a lot of mindfulness + health progress. I began new ADHD medications, I started a workout routine, and did a lot of work regarding the competition Makerlog's in -- EnterPRize. I've also worked heavily on getting my studying + university routine in check.

Next month I restart my daily community building routine that I had to stop due to my schedule irregularity.

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Ryan Glass

My aim was to finish making the Downtime Monkey monitoring engine more efficient.

I got half way through this before getting side-tracked automating a lot of the repetitive tasks I do on Twitter. I've decided to develop this into a 'Twitter management service' which means I've started another project :)

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This month I focused mainly on design for Trivl. The first thing I did was give Trivl an identity in the form of a logo and colour palette. Next I built out the designs for the web application which have now been completed. This month I will be focusing on the serverless API which the web application will consume with the first thing being authentication.

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Carl Poppa 🛸

That's amazing progress, Simon! Curious to know how much time per day do you spend on Eager?

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Simon Chiu Author

Thanks!

I think about 3-5 hours. Not full time, but it's significant enough. Balancing it between maintaining older apps, some clients who I enjoy working with from my previous freelance life, etc.

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In september, I did things which took enough mental pressure. Some major decisions were to be made regarding designtack and everything that was going on but I am glad I took the right decision. I compiled everything into a blog post on my personal blog here where I broke down the whole journey to make a decision.

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Simon Chiu Author

I hear ya about the long road death of the saas (I always get the order of those words wrong 😑)

Take a look at creating a Shopify app integration. A lot of customers on there and if you’re in the App Store, it almost markets itself.

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