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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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.
- Did not have time to finish learning Flutter 😔. In fact, didn't even touch it at all.
- 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.
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 :)
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.
That's amazing progress, Simon! Curious to know how much time per day do you spend on Eager?
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.
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.
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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