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📢 Day 272 - Learning about Market Research
Applied to @beondeck.
Learned about Sales Safari by @amyhoy.
Looking forward to seeing those money tree-eating Giraffes I've heard about.
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Applied to @beondeck.
Learned about Sales Safari by @amyhoy.
Looking forward to seeing those money tree-eating Giraffes I've heard about.
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📢 Day 271 - Market research?
After finally being mentally satisfied the product I want to build can indeed be built, the focus now is on market validation.
The biggest question to answer is who is the ideal initial customer?
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After finally being mentally satisfied the product I want to build can indeed be built, the focus now is on market validation.
The biggest question to answer is who is the ideal initial customer?
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🛠 Day 270 - More fonts
Added categories and changed selected state to use a checkmark.
Got distracted by a few other bugs I had to fix.
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Added categories and changed selected state to use a checkmark.
Got distracted by a few other bugs I had to fix.
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🛠 Day 269 - Improved font selection
Added initial improvements to font selection 😁.
There is little innovation around font selection even on Dribble. Designer friends, what is that all about? 😱
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Added initial improvements to font selection 😁.
There is little innovation around font selection even on Dribble. Designer friends, what is that all about? 😱
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🛠 Day 268 - Font Research
Trying to define a curated list of fonts to show 20-50 instead of 1400 😱.
Learned a lot about fonts thanks to @typewolf and @HuaTweets.
Still, I feel fonts feel unnecessarily opaque and complex. What do you think?
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Trying to define a curated list of fonts to show 20-50 instead of 1400 😱.
Learned a lot about fonts thanks to @typewolf and @HuaTweets.
Still, I feel fonts feel unnecessarily opaque and complex. What do you think?
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🛠 Day 262-267 - Back to the Drawing Board
Changed layouts and implemented more Figma-like features.
Then decided to rethink the whole approach and product. (see video 🎥)
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Changed layouts and implemented more Figma-like features.
Then decided to rethink the whole approach and product. (see video 🎥)
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📢 Day 261 - Social Day
Talked to all sorts of different people: startup founders, investors.
7 amazing humans in total. Learned a ton from them wow. I'll tell you about it soon.
For now, time for a nap 😴
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Talked to all sorts of different people: startup founders, investors.
7 amazing humans in total. Learned a ton from them wow. I'll tell you about it soon.
For now, time for a nap 😴
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📢 Day 258 - Users
Researched and contacted users manually. Many find this annoying/scary, I find it surprisingly calming.
🛠 Day 259 - Free Move Mode
Started reviving these changes and making them production-ready.
twitter.com/yagudaev/statu…
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Researched and contacted users manually. Many find this annoying/scary, I find it surprisingly calming.
🛠 Day 259 - Free Move Mode
Started reviving these changes and making them production-ready.
twitter.com/yagudaev/statu…
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🛠 YC Build Sprint Day 8
Having the time of my life building the editor 🤩.
The last time I had so much fun was building @picturethatar.
Added resizing, a keyboard shortcut for zooming with the mouse wheel, and smoother moving elements.
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Having the time of my life building the editor 🤩.
The last time I had so much fun was building @picturethatar.
Added resizing, a keyboard shortcut for zooming with the mouse wheel, and smoother moving elements.
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📢 Day 257 - User Interviews + Recruiting Users
In the spirit of PG's essay, do things that don't scale.
I've been manually researching interesting Twitter accounts and reaching out.
I've had an amazing discussion with @d__raptis 💜
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In the spirit of PG's essay, do things that don't scale.
I've been manually researching interesting Twitter accounts and reaching out.
I've had an amazing discussion with @d__raptis 💜
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Just had an incredible chat with Simon @allthecode_ about Instagram, Twitter content creator journey.
I felt like everything was new and I knew nothing 🤣. So many ideas.
I'm still trying to parse it all. Talking to people is powerful 💪
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I felt like everything was new and I knew nothing 🤣. So many ideas.
I'm still trying to parse it all. Talking to people is powerful 💪
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🛠 Day 254-256 - Gradient Text 🌈
Shipped 🛳 the ability to create and export gradient text 😁.
It was way harder than I thought (details in comments below).
Give it a try 👇
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Shipped 🛳 the ability to create and export gradient text 😁.
It was way harder than I thought (details in comments below).
Give it a try 👇
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🛠 Day 251-253 - fear & doubt
I started to get depressed, feeling doubt and uncertain about the direction.
Why?
Last two weeks I made little progress. A Family visit followed by a week of being semi-sick. This sucked.
But...
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I started to get depressed, feeling doubt and uncertain about the direction.
Why?
Last two weeks I made little progress. A Family visit followed by a week of being semi-sick. This sucked.
But...
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🛠 Day 249-250 - Buggy Gradient Text
It started as a simple: "ok, I think I can hack this lib in an hour..."
Two days later, it is a more fundamental bug that has to do with inconsistencies in Chrome.
More details are below. Tech is hard too.
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It started as a simple: "ok, I think I can hack this lib in an hour..."
Two days later, it is a more fundamental bug that has to do with inconsistencies in Chrome.
More details are below. Tech is hard too.
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🛠 Day 247-248 - YC Application + Bugs
✅ YC Application done 🥳
✅ Quick product overview
✅ Couple of minor bugs fixed
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✅ YC Application done 🥳
✅ Quick product overview
✅ Couple of minor bugs fixed
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Yay! Finish my YC Application 🎉
Time to eat, sleep, gym, repeat ♻️... oh and code 🧑🏻💻
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youtu.be/G8IY-A0luno
Time to eat, sleep, gym, repeat ♻️... oh and code 🧑🏻💻
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youtu.be/G8IY-A0luno
🛠 Day 246 - Gradients 🌈🤩
It's true! They are finally here.
It took me long enough right? 😬
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It's true! They are finally here.
It took me long enough right? 😬
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🛠 Day 245 - Storytelling
Decided to refocus on making @conceptual_so the best tool to tell your personal story in a visual way.
That means using it for my #buildinpublic journey.
The first feature is uploading a screenshot/photo in Notion-like tab UI.
Thoughts? Requests?
Decided to refocus on making @conceptual_so the best tool to tell your personal story in a visual way.
That means using it for my #buildinpublic journey.
The first feature is uploading a screenshot/photo in Notion-like tab UI.
Thoughts? Requests?
📣 Day 241-244 - Presentations & Applications
✅ YC SUS 60-second pitch presentation
✅ YC Application draft
✅ 2-hour guest lecture about prototyping software
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✅ YC SUS 60-second pitch presentation
✅ YC Application draft
✅ 2-hour guest lecture about prototyping software
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Just finished our YC SUS demos and 60-second pitches 🎉
Everyone did such an amazing job! 👏👏👏
Twitter friends, if you haven't already, try @startupschool
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Everyone did such an amazing job! 👏👏👏
Twitter friends, if you haven't already, try @startupschool
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