Stand Up: Who's hustlin' on Tuesday?
Only today and tomorrow to get it in!
Why?
That extra nudge of accountability to achieve even a small step on your IH journey each day.
To join in:
01 Share your epic (a big chunk of work with a meaty objective) you'd like to complete by the end of July.
02 Share what you accomplished yesterday.
03 Share what you commit to accomplishing today.
04 COMMENT on AT LEAST ONE fellow hacker's progress and give them an IH Point for their check in. Let's get in there with the encouragement/feedback!
Optional:
05 Share your Work In Progress to underscore your accomplishments.
Then tune in the tomorrow to share how you did on your own tasks!
#daily-stand-up
EPIC
YESTERDAY
TODAY
KUDOS
Thanks, buddy! I'm trying to make better habits. Gotta reach these goals! So explain IPNS to your auntie aka me?
Haha sure! So I'll start with IPFS since that's the main tech and then move into IPNS, which is just a feature of IPFS.
IPFS is just the internet with a few changes. We can use https://www.envoydeals.com as the example case.
In today's world the files to serve https://www.envoydeals.com are hosted on some server you control. In the IPFS world, those files would be on a server as well - but if I go to that website, then they'd also be cached on my computer for a set amount of time. Then if my neighbor also decided to access those files around the same time I do, his IPFS-enabled computer will fetch the files from my cache instead of going to your server.
This means that as a piece of content (i.e. a website) becomes more popular, the performance of IPFS v. current web actually increases. It also takes the load off your server so that you pay less in bandwidth costs. In that way it's a CDN like cloudfront or cloudflare.
IPFS also has one more nuance to it. Instead of using a URL as we know it to get to those files, IPFS creates a hash for content based on the content itself. Said another way, it uses the 1's and 0's that make up the data to create a unique address that points to the content. This address is always the same as long as the content is the same. If the content changes, the address changes.
This brings some pros and cons with it. The big pro is that if I give you a hash for a piece of content - you can rest easy from a security perspective knowing that no one will be able to hack that content to insert malicious content / code. The big con is that hashes are not human readable (they look super ugly like Qm10Sla87BAm...) and having dynamically changing addresses for a website you'll iterate on is super annoying.
IPNS was created to solve that problem for IPFS. It just creates a single static hash that you connect to the dynamic hash. There are tools to automate this and to also attach a human readable name to the static hash.
I hope that helps!
Link to the blog post?
Voilà!
EPIC
YESTERDAY
TODAY
More logging calls/messages in HubSpotWIP: Envoy
KUDOS
TBA
No big update from me today, just executing and executing. Hoping to finish site by EoD tomorrow and officially launch to early paid access beta on Thursday.
Lots to do and never quite enough time...but they wouldn't be EPIC if they weren't difficult to pull off.
EPIC FOR JULY
Complete 42 pieces of content for evergreen launch. Includes:
4 Facebook ads for two funnels (4 of 4 completed)3 Landing pages (3 of 3 completed)9 Website pages (home (completed), privacy policy (completed), about (completed), contact (completed), enrollment closed (completed_, free training (completed), access ended page for enrollment page (completed))3 scripts for free video series (3 of 3 completed)YESTERDAY
TODAY
KUDOS
@csallen for giving #stand-up a home!
Hey, so how are your various projects going? How's the dating site, the jeans site, and the hair site? Are you focused on just the hair site now?
My day gig has been a beast the last three months which has required me to focus. So yep. Just focused on the hair site for the moment!
Today
Researching prospects
Verifying emails
Call with a growth hacker to get feedback
01 July epic was "get some customers" but it's not looking likely at the current rate.
02 Made some changes to the website based on visitor feedback. I made the pricing text larger and added a section to the landing page to describe the exact changes to the workflow that Stowbots makes.
03 Today I'm recreating some of my ads on reddit as well as posting in some niche forums to see if Stowbots might have a particular appeal to certain groups, like photography enthusiasts. Let me know if you have any ideas!
WIP: stowbots.com
Quick observation - the "pricing" box is still small on your landing page, but once I click through it increases in size. Not sure if this a problem for me locally or just some css gone awry.
On the appeal to certain groups, do you personally use stowbots? If so, how?
For the pricing text, I actually meant the dollar amounts listed on the pricing page, not the pricing button itself. Thanks for the note though!
I use Stowbots to organize wallpaper downloads, different types of art, gifs, and humorous images (memes, videogame references, etc). I hypothesize that the images people download are related to their hobbies though, and I'm curious to know which hobbies involve the most image downloading.
Hmmm, I wonder if you could actually package up your algorithm and sell that to AI/ML researchers?
There's a market for research reproducibility and part of that workflow for researchers is the manual work of packaging up the raw data they used for their papers. See Quilt for an example of a company working in that space.
Not sure how likely that market is to buy something or how deep the pain runs - but perhaps worth exploring?
Thanks for the idea.
Epic:
Launch Naminator, Bianna, Dating site by end of 2019. Have one of them gain traction.
Last few days:
Tomorrow:
WIP: https://naminator.io
Tease! What's the name? And what's mutate?
We'll be Criminull, Inc. We have the .com. What do you think, do you hate it? Haha.