Solo founders - when writing in your company's voice, do you use "we" or "I"?

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Hoping this reaches the #buildinpublic community

Is anyone using any good tools to listen for keywords on new Reddit posts?

I'm using f5bot - it's pretty good but has a lot of false positives and can't see a way to exclude them

Looking at my LinkedIn pipeline for getting to 100 customer conversations...

I'm gonna have to dramatically speed this thing up if I want to get back to building before October.

Who else doing #buildinpublic is doing customer insight interviews - how are you going about it?

21 potential customer conversations in and finally got asked about dark mode 😂

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Returning to my goal of speaking to 100 people after being in coding mode.

I'm about 15 people in and I think now I know what's wrong with the website's messaging.

But not sure if I should update it now, or continue talking to more people first...

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I've finally shipped to production, almost a year later after starting this #buildinpublic journey 😅

Sign up at criteria.sh/app and try it out!

There's still a few loose ends to tidy up on the website, but I still have a couple days until my self-imposed deadline 😛

First production deployment! 😃

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Uh oh, I have 8 days until I said I would ship an MVP

Then my screen broke 😂

Let’s see if the shop can fix it in time

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Assigning issues to myself for a side project felt really silly

But now...

➡️ I can actually tell if I'm making progress or need to cut scope
➡️ Moving something to Done gives me closure and helps me go to bed 😛

It also helps that @linear is almost no overhead

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The more of the app I build the easier it gets.

In one day I achieved:

✅ New table component
✅ New alert component
✅ New settings page
✅ New backend API

Altogether you can now manage your API credentials within the app!

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Pretty satisfied with this file uploader right now

It's a mishmash of @tailwindui for styling and Evergreen from @segment for drag and drop logic.

T-29 of #buildinpublic

I've gotten in the trap of coding for fun and not delivering anything 😞

So... in 30 days I will ship an MVP.

When I first started this, the #buildinpublic "tweet every day for 30 days" challenge helped me focus.

Now I need to count down instead of up.

Today is T-30.

If you started following me from the #buildinpublic hashtag - I haven't posted in months, I know!

I moved country in December and paused criteria.sh while I took some time to focus on the move and then settle in.

Ready to get back at it now 🦾

The first blog post on criteria.sh is up! 🙌

criteria.sh/blog/getting-v…

It's more of a #buildinpublic post than about the product. But writing about anything helps me get in the habit of it.

They say that one of the best ways to garner interest before a launch is to publish content, so...

I built the blog. Now I just have to write the content 😂

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A conversation today...

"How are you doing that today?"
"We're just using an Excel spreadsheet."

Music to a founder's ears 🎵🎵

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I did what I said I would do and put a video up on criteria.sh

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I recorded a demo video for criteria.sh, but can't upload it to YouTube under my business email because my Google Workspace account isn't 30 days old yet...

This is such a weird hurdle... was setting up Google Workspace overkill? 🤔

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This is what my LinkedIn outreach funnel looks like so far:

Invites: 75
Connections: 21
Conversations: 5
Waitlist signups: 1

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Implemented the language picker!

OK, this is the last feature. If I don't record a demo video by the end of this week, somebody slap me.

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