What do you think about this onboarding screen for my #climbing app?

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Anyone #climbing?

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What tools do you use for finding the right crag?
What annoys or frustrates you about the process or tools?

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"Climb up the tree as far as you can go. Once you build your tree, it's time to start your own branch.

-Steal like an artist

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Product Dev. Shot from one of our earliest runs of climber's balm. Probably summer 2020. Our first batch of labels was bad actually, totally unreadable #buildinpublic #climbing #balm #skincare

Product Dev. Small contributions can make a big difference to your motivation. One of the first things we did for the brand was ordering logo stickers. And it was so nice to see them show up on climber's vans. Even before we had product to sell. #climbing #buildinpublic

Product Dev. If you're not ashamed of your first prototypes you're doing things wrong. Release early. Release often. Summer 2020. Glued together cardboard prototype ... #buildinpublic #climbing #bal

Product Dev. This is how messy prototyping gets when you're mixing up your own chalk for prototyping. Summer 2020, still in lockdown. #climbing #buildinpublic

Product Dev. This silly little green measuring mat has turned out to be so useful in making the chalk rebels products. Here it's being used to measure the dimensions for a P.O.S. display #buildinpublic #climbing

Product Dev. Sometimes your best product shots come from the community. Another reasons to release early, often & be generous with the samples you send out! Picture is summer 2021... #buildinpublic #climbing #chalk

One of the first things we tried out at Chalk Rebels was to make liquid without magnesium carbonate We settled on modifying an anti-perspirant. We did many rounds of formulations until we ended up with Crystal Chalk. First samples looked like this #buildinpublic #climbing #chalk

Product Dev. This is what happens when you have too much time on your hands because of COVID lockdowns. You end up imagining all kinds of products for climbers. Including this ill-fated soap. Summer 2020. We have a lifetime supply of these ... #buildinpublic #climbing

Product Dev. We wasted so much time early on designing cardboard boxes for our chalk products. In the end we just started shipping tubes without box at all. Box design printout, probably summer 2020. #buildinpublic #climbing #chalk

Product Dev. Cheap-ass P.O.S. display prototyping. Cardboard & duct-tape to the rescue. Spring 2022. #buildinpublic #climbing

Be our hero. Help us switch to Upsalite®. It's a magic kind of chalk that performs 10 times better than regular chalk. Today we already use Upsalite®. But only for liquid chalk. And you can HELP US BRING UPSALITE® TO CHALK POWDER. #buildinpublic #upsalite #climbing #chalk

Chalk Rebels Flashback. This is how chalk gets shipped at scale. It comes in 25kg bags before we process them into liquid chalk. This one is from summer 2021. #buildinpublic #climbing #chalk

Product Dev. Made in China vs. Made in EU. In the summer of 2020 we ordered a batch from China and one from Europe. Pic from summer 2020 comparing EU vs. CN. Turns out that manufacturing close to home & keeping control of the formula was the way to do! #climbing #buildinpublic

Product Dev. Sharing a company secret here. Our first instinct was to order liquid chalk from China. Never again. Quality was horrible. In a way I'm happy we did that. The experience reinforced our commitment to produce in Europe like nothing else! #buildinpublic #climbing

Product Dev. It felt really weird to go back to dry chalk when I started to test our latest product line in Autumn 2022. Tested about a dozen different blends before setting on two awesome formulas with Upsalite®: smooth & chunky #buildinpublic #climbing #chalk

Product Dev. That smile of satisfaction on your face when it's all coming together. September 2021. Our first hands-on photoshoot with all products coming straight from the production line instead of hacking together prototypes #climbing #buildinpublic

Product Dev. Getting early feedback on your products is so crucial. It's pretty easy to do in software but for something that is a physical good with production cycles of 3 months it's tough. So it was great to see our products in use by Font locals. 2020 #buildinpublic #climbing

Product Dev. We ordered tons of these boxes for our first production run and ended up discarding lots of them because guess what? Turns out retailers don't want boxes, they suck for shipping. Chalk is about putting tubes on shelves. Much easier! #buildinpublic #chalk #climbing

Product Dev. When we started Chalk Rebels we were in the middle of COVID lockdown. This gave us way more time to work on design than expected. So we ended up prematurely optimizing packaging designs. In retrospect most of that was a waste. Summer 2020 ... #climbing #buildinpublic

Product Dev. This is what happens when you have too much time on your hands because of COVID lockdowns. You end up imagining all kinds of products for climbers. Including this ill-fated soap. Summer 2020. We have a lifetime supply of these ... #buildinpublic #climbing

Product Dev. One of he greatest feelings is seeing your own product on display in gyms. Especially after all of the suffering due to COVID lockdowns. Getting product in gyms took MONTHS longer than planned. Pic is from early 2021 #buildinpublic #climbing #liquidchalk

So yeah, it's alive ... Chalk Powder with Upsalite® Kickstarter ... USA + EU Shipping @ bit.ly/chalkrebels #buildinpublic #crowdfunding #climbing

Product Dev Flashback. In the summer of 2021 we decided to boost our liquid chalk with Upsalite®. We immediately shared our first samples with climbers to get feedback. Speed & early feedback is crucial when creating new products. #buildinpublic #customerdevelopment #climbing

Product Dev. "I swear officer, this is not what you think it is ..." You end up doing all kinds of weird things to prototype chalk packaging. Walter White would be proud. New packaging prototyping summer 2022 ... #buildinpublic #climbing #chalk

We were super late to the T-Shirt game at Chalk Rebels. Like 2 years late. Spring 2022. Know the boulder on this one? (Hint: it's on Font & you can't climb it anymore) #climbing #shirt #bouldering #buildinpublic

We're going to be selling some of our existing products at unprecedented prices in our #kickstarter #crowdfunding campaign. All in stock. Timing it so that we make Christmas delivery for sure! #buildinpublic #climbing

Okay ... now my eyes definitely are starting to glaze over ... editing the Kickstarter rewards for our Upsalite® Chalk campaign ... #kickstarter #climbing #chalk #buildinpublic

Here's a crazy idea: 24h of hangboarding ... I'll live-stream a 24h hangboarding session where I do a rep / hang for every order that comes in ... #buildinpublic #crowdfunding #climbing #amicrazy

Just finished the landing page for our Kickstarter ... Twitter is the first to know ... then again ... "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"
bit.ly/chalkrebels #buildinpublic #kickstarter #climbing

When you realize you urgently need graphical assets for your launch campaign & your community delivers like a champ. I received 70 kick-ass climbing images in less than 24h! #buildinpublic #climbing

Product Dev. Even before settling on liquid chalk as a first product we experimented with chalk balls. In the summer of 2019 we experimented with paper packaging. This is a first prototype shoot from summer 2019 #buildinpublic #climbing #chalkball #chalk

Product Dev. Early box prototype for our chalk. 2020. Turns out retailers don't want boxes: "Just give me a tube I can stick on a shelf." and we changed the color ... and ... and ... if you don't make mistakes you're not learning ... #chalkrebels #chalk #climbing #buildinpublic