Weeknotes vol. 5: A month of cool stuff, a listicle
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As of yesterday I’m officially a month into this new venture.
I remember when Good Work grew to the size that we were getting more done in a month than I did in the first year, which is a good light at the end of the tunnel that the effort done in the last month at Better Than Good will some day be done in a day or a week or something like that.
Since we’re in a new month I’ll recap the last:
- Launched Better Than Good (the website)
- Moved into a new office
- Name and design direction for my first app, Braindrop
- Lots of forward (and backward) progress on the code front
- Worked on the Braindrop marketing website to gain clarity around the most important things
- Got some cool coasters which I’ll be sending to the first 100 people on the newsletter list
- Realized the newsletter sign up link was broken last week for who knows how long.
And here’s the high level plan this month:
- Launch the Braindrop marketing website
- Create the Braindrop API
- Polish design for the MacOS app
- Have a working WatchOS prototype.
Cheerio!
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