Updates:
❤️ @barret_jessy 👑 said yes to lead design + marketing
🗄️ successive comments are now grouped
🖌️ links and other markup are now shown in comments
📁 completed tasks are folded by default
🔑 @supabase Auth is set up & now we focus on private git repo xs

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🎯 3 core goals:

💡 Data Ownership: plaintext and all tracked in git for easy time-travel (diffs)⌚
💡 Dev-centric: Enabling work where it happens whether it is #vscode, #vim, #Emacs or else.
💡 #Notion-ish UI/#UX when you need it simple

#buildinpublic #toolsforthought

Join early #beta: 🗳️ If you're an eng/dev/sci, pls share your input and register for #earlybeta 🎆 h8d701bcme8.typeform.com/to/z4DjWYjQ?ut…

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We're building collaboration tooling 🧰 for teams making "hard tech" 🤖🧬🚀🧪 to own intel 🧠 & progress ✅ management. 👑

All on top of git while offering a better-than-Notion UI/UX. formation.tools #buildinpublic #BuildFormationTools

Big picture🌠: working towards a better reader UX + private repo xs by EoY! 🎆

Not on track‍ 😅 but we have to try/push. 🤷🏿‍♂️ Part of the reason why we're shuffling around tooling to accelerate our delivery.

Stay tuned and enjoy the holidays meanwhile!🎄

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This week's progress:

✔️ fixed list folding quirks (see proto.formation.tools/#style-fallbac…)
💊 on to plan B: @supabase Auth & grateful to @OryCorp devrel & CTO for debuggin help during the holiday rush 🎄 ("I'm the problem, it's me" tho ‍🤦🏿‍♂️)
📇 table of contents on mobile

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Building intel- & progress-mgmt 🧠✅ tools 🧰 for teams building "hard tech" 🤖🧬🚀⚕️

Use web, plaintext over git, API calls & slash commands in chat to easily #GTD. 🚀

🗳️ Are you an eng/dev/sci? Pls share your input for early beta 🎆 @ h8d701bcme8.typeform.com/to/z4DjWYjQ?ut…
#buildinpublic

This week's progress:

😅 painstakingly brewing WIP fixes/improvements to comments-handling and Kanban fixes
🤬 slow progress on getting SSO w/ GitHub + Google

Big picture🌠: working towards a better reader UX + private repo xs by EoY! 🎆

#buildinpublic

This week's progress:

👀 rolled out some UX improvements (many more in the works ⏳) loom.com/share/d5db0a72…
🔑 kicked off work on social sign-in for GitHub (to enable private repo xs by EoY 🎆)
🤖🤔 completed a bunch of experiments & interviews for new insights

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This week's progress:

🔑 basic integration steps have been made on the @orycorp front
👁️🗨️ many more chats w/ customers (lower eng output due to focus on these chats) 😭
🎁 interviewed product management talents (focus: feature prioritization and custdev)

#buildinpublic

Solving 📰 intel- 🧠 & progress-mgmt ✅ for teams building hard tech: Use an easy web interface, plaintext through git, API calls or chat commands to #GTD. 🚀

Collecting data 🎣, so pls share (3m survey) w/ eng/dev/sci folks 🙏: h8d701bcme8.typeform.com/to/z4DjWYjQ?ut…

#buildinpublic

Solving 📰 intel- 🧠 & progress-mgmt ✅ for teams building hard tech: easy-to-use web UI + plaintext through git + API and Slack xs to stay out of your way while #GTD. 🚀

Still gathering insights 🎣. Pls share (2m survey) w/ eng/sci folks: h8d701bcme8.typeform.com/to/z4DjWYjQ?ut…

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This week:

🗨️ conducted more customer chats (improved sigs on pains)
🧰 studied more solutions in the space
📐 wireframed UI fixes
🔒 started stubbing auth
🛑 received no from YC. BRB stronger (next batch)
🏫 started YC SUS
🪄 started branding prep for launch

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This week's progress:

🛬 landing-page review w/ a copywriter produced many TODOs for next week
👓 1st setup for a dual-pane UI to be integrated next week loom.com/share/0f568cc9…
🧹 reorg/cleanup work to unblock future dev. thx Stefano 🏅

#buildinpublic #fridayreport #TWiFT

Cont'd: This week's progress:

🎁 product chat w/ @csteinlehner w/ interesting TODO's+ideas youtu.be/CkBRh2b7YwQ
🚀 chats w/ investors for intros to their deep-tech teams to learn how they manage intel + progress. 🧠

#buildinpublic #fridayreport #TWiFT

Solving 📰 intel- 🧠 & progress-mgmt ✅ for teams making hard tech: a snappy web UI over plaintext in git w/ easy API and Slack xs to stay out of your way while #GTD. 🚀

Still fishing for data 🎣. Pls share (2m survey) w/ eng/dev/sci folks h8d701bcme8.typeform.com/to/z4DjWYjQ?ut…

#buildinpublic

#TWiFT: 📰 Intel- 🧠 & progress-mgmt ✅ for hackers: just plaintext in git, API calls, Slack msgs & easy web interfaces that stay out of the way to #GTD. 🚀

🛬 launched landing page v1 formation.tools
🫱🏻‍🫲🏿 locked in co-founders for phase 2 🩲
📛 new logo

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In between the 70K attendees @WebSummit🤯, we played around with GPT-3 🤖 to prototype some basic admin-support magic which was fun. 🪄

Plenty of basic plumbing to solve before the shiny stuff becomes relevant so back to focus now. 🌠

#buildinpublic very belated #fridayreport

Follow @vidbina to catch weekly livestreams on progress. This week's wrap-up was captured twitter.com/vidbina/status… and next week, we'll try to stream from @WebSummit #buildinpublic

What's new in @formationtools:

🚪 expand/collapse sections
💄 more UX tweaks
🛝 resizable panes (width of ToC can be adjusted)
🖊️ played with more WYSIWYG editor libs (prep-work)
🎟️ more WebSummit prep, wrapped up (pretty exciting about it)

#TWiFT #buildinpublic #fridayreport