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It’s been a sprint but the first round of cashflow notifications went out!

My son and I have been working through the coding bugs for sending emails after pulling data from QuickBooks and presenting it in a simple format

Pretty happy so far 😁

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Son and I have very different styles

I see myself as SpaceX - keep launching rockets until you get to space learning as you go

He is NASA - don’t do anything until you have strained out every detail

Which are you?

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We are live! 👉 proforma.cash

The SaaS project that my son and I want to sell this year on @acquiredotcom is finally up 😁

Let the fun begin 💪

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Literally sitting beside my son right now debating aggressively changes to the user experience

Hard to see the forest for the trees when you are deep in code

Is today the day we make our side project available for people to use?

🤞

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Crawled over the line 😁

Launching in 2 new cities in January 😬

I built @ondework to solve the labour challenges I have in my construction business

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Update:

Son was up into the wee hours of the morning finishing Stripe code for upgrades and cancels

Ball is back in my court now to finish emails and then publish to Azure web app and work through the inevitable bugs

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In other news…

My startup that was born from solving my own problem in my construction company launched in March of this year and hopefully we cross the $100k mark before Dec 31 🤞

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…so close…

Update logo placeholder, clean up email responses and some UI tweaks before pushing to web app…

Hopefully we are live today (if my son decides to wake up before the day is over 🤣)

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Son and I are discussing the format for our SaaS emails - he wants them to look pretty and I don’t want them getting caught in spam filters

What is a good compromise? Our stack is .net MVC and an Azure web app

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@prettyjson @agazdecki @microacquire The hashtag #buildinpublic has some awesome people who are really good at posting regular updates/wins/losses
My son and I have decided to launch a product and see if we can get it @microacquire’d

Domains registered and beta is ready

Stay tuned!

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…mistakes happen but our ability to keep going will continue to serve us well

My update from this past week 👇

wp.me/p2Ckbx-1LF

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“There is no question that a start-up is hard but we have proven our idea works and now we need to focus on telling our story to the people that need our solution.”

My #startup update for this past week:

👉 wp.me/p2Ckbx-1KX

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We’re back - got GitHub all sorted and worked our way through some email authentication problems 🙄

Tomorrow is a new day 💪

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And there’s the crash…

Relaunched on demand labour service webapp and some GitHub problems have us frozen right now

Who loves startup? 😁

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First handful of temp workers have been on-boarded and are ready to accept jobs

Next step, onboard companies looking for temp workers

We are micromanaging everything to make sure we miss nothing

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Biggest lesson so far:

Take time to understand who you are trying to reach, why you are trying to reach them and what solution you are trying to offer

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3/3 …push a code update and see what tomorrow will bring us 🤞

So much fun especially when you know what you are doing will change people’s lives

It’s worth all the stress, anxiety and work 💪

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Scaled back some functionality and pushed code for our latest version

We were a little too ambitious with our first push 4 days ago

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Launching a #startup is no joke

We live Sunday at 12:17 am

Spent yesterday manually working through @stripe challenges (our not theirs)

Today we need to rewrite a chunk of code to accommodate user issues we didn’t anticipate

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