2020 Stand Up: Who's hustling Friday?
What will you accomplish by end of January?
What did you do yesterday to work toward your goal?
What will you do today?
What will you accomplish by end of January?
What did you do yesterday to work toward your goal?
What will you do today?
End of January
Rank for a few juicy keywords on google and pimp up Monitoro's visibility.
Yesterday
Shipped the first article. You can read it here:
https://blog.monitoro.xyz/post/190023685811/monitor-website-changes-ifttt
Today
Figuring out a way to move the blog and the docs to the same domain (back to engineering!)
SEO usually takes a while, how do you plan on getting backlinks etc for your blog posts?
Also are you paying for gitbook?
Looking at what people are linking to, make better content than that, reach out to these people.
I know the goal is ambitious, but at the very least by end of Jan my plan is to have set everything in motion, even if the SEO results are not there yet.
Nope. In fact I'm considering rolling back on using gitbook (and tumblr for the blog) because they're both a nightmare to reverse proxy to put them on a subfolder.
I'm exploring going with ghost as a single platform on which to put the website, the docs and the blog. (ghost because I can't be arsed to deal with PHP, I'm a JS dev)
I just want to provide counter points as we're rarely challenged as founders on our ideas.
Can Ghost do landing pages and docs?
Thanks! It's a valid consideration and it crossed my mind before.
I'm thinking about two dynamics at play:
1- If someone linked to an existing piece of content, then it's possible they want to link another one if it's better. Josh seems to be pissed about keyword ranking, which is a larger category. If they're not linking to content already, they might not want to.
2- Marketing is also about testing about what works and what doesn't (and the different tradeoffs at play), so as a perfect noob in this I am experimenting with this approach open-minded, and if it fails no biggie.
I have some other ideas in mind as well, but they all require some content.
(for example, sharing specialized content in specific communities -subreddits for example- might have a large impact and trigger some organic backlinking)
So yeah, let's cross fingers and see where this approach is taking!
That's exactly what I'm trying to figure out. If ghost doesn't do the job, I'll look for another solution (hopefully avoiding coding something completely).
With that said, landing pages seem to be possible. Docs too probably, but I need to figure out a good taxonomy structure to manage all of this.
One main constraint here is that I don't want to re-deploy anything to update the blog, so no static site generators for me.
Makes sense I plan to do the same for https://saaspages.xyz/, look for blogs that already link to other resources as they understand the value of sharing content with their audience.
Likewise I got plans for Hacker news, it can drive 40k+ visitors which is crazy.
We plan on adding docs to Versoly, as we need that feature ourselves.
It is still such a pain to get a marketing site up for a SaaS.
Our plans look very much aligned! Good luck Volkan!
By the end of January
Address feedback from users.
Improve Goals UI - Add goals to the main page for Premium users.
Yesterday
Answer user questions
Obsess over stats
Today
Fix bugs.
Make minor UI improvements based on user feedback.
https://www.brooklet.app/download
Oh wow! Lots I see! 8 paid users! That's huge! Congrats!
Thanks Janice, feel like a huge leap and a tiny step at the same time.
What will you accomplish by end of January?
2 bigger items are in progress ( workflow and social media inbox ) which i try to complete by January .
What did you do yesterday to work toward your goal?
Completed the UI mockup , and it looks fine .
What will you do today?
Integrate with the backend API , Work on the design for list view of posts with different filters.
EO Jan: Get MVP of https://MailBuffer.io out the door. Get steady usage out of beta users.
Yesterday: lol...nothing. Getting back from holidays and vacation
Today: Do anything to move the needle.
What will you accomplish by end of January? The goal is 50 total customers! (https://blook.io)
What did you do yesterday to work toward your goal? We transitioned from our soft release to our official release and got several customers after marketing :D Getting the stripe notifications made my day and made me want to keep working all night hahaha 30 to go!
What will you do today? Continue optimizing our marketing channels, the product is built and ready. Now it's time to just find more customers.
January: I'll have filters added for meta and user reviews, search by name, and stretch goal of getting either price or genre info in!
Yesterday: I got images uploaded for all the switch games! exploregames.io
Today: I'll work on ui for the first filter for reviews.
I am finally continuing with writing of deploymentformakers.com after a longer period of inactivity (due to contract work and other things). I actually took 14 extra days to focus on on it. I hope I can make a serious progress this month and hopefully an early aplha version will be ready.
End of January
Validate an idea. Maybe two.
Yesterday
Today
Its great to see you jumping back in!
Thanks! It's been a hot second! How goes it for you?