Making is the Drive to Create
Project Updates
Wednesday, January 27th, 2021
Wanted An Experimental Weekend Project
Was learning about some new tech (Lando, specifically) and I wanted to try it on a small experimental project rather than one of my existing apps. I had been thinking about these kind of counter apps lately and how they are getting used a lot during the pandemic. I think it might be possible to rank for a web-only version of one, so I figured I would try it out.
Not sure its going to go anywhere, but I would consider adding additional premium features if it ends up getting some traffic to it.
Got something up for feedback
I got a landing page created and have part of the builder tool working. I'm starting to email out to some of my agency contacts and see if they have feedback about the tool.
Would love any thoughts you have about the landing page, potential pricing model, or features for the tool itself.
Wednesday, July 29th, 2020
Started something new
I'm a glutton for punishment and started a new project. The idea is a quick payment app where companies could send payment links via text or email and their customers could pay with credit card, Apple Pay, or Google Pay.
I've got an alpha version going but I'm still finalizing a lot of stuff about how it will work and how much it will cost.
Sunday, June 21st, 2020
Been Getting a Few Orders a Week
Kinda fun since I've been getting a few orders a week now. Still only makes $2-5 per shirt, so its not exactly a huge money maker, but still fun to experiment with.
Thursday, June 20th, 2019
Crazy Inspired
Met with Andrew about this the other day and he thought this idea had a lot of potential. It's amazing what a short conversation can do to motivate you to work on an idea.
Thursday, May 16th, 2019
What next?
I feel like the basics of the site are there and working. Waiting to see how it will be used and what features would be valuable to people. Would love to hear ideas and feedback. Here were some thoughts about what else could be added:
- Ability for others to ask questions about projects and have the maker respond.
- Ability for the maker to add polls to discussions (like what feature to build next)
- Ability for maker to add a "next up"/"roadmap" to projects, re-arrange them, and possibly allow people to "like" or "vote" on them.
- Ability to add monthly metrics to projects (such as users, earnings, content added...?) kinda like the "open startup" idea.
Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
Next Steps
I just need to update this so that the WordPress repository says that it is compatible with the latest version of WP.
I've also been working on adding in the ability to add Advanced Custom Fields to the Archive page, kinda like an options page. Made some progress awhile ago, but need to flesh that out a bit more.
Not Quite Ready
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