Recent content by sp1d5r

Oh wow - okay it's been 2.5 years since I last posted on this account... This product died roughly around the same time as the final post. Since then I built my second startup taking another year to build and market for me to be wiped out by Opus clips. Then I built my third startup which...

Sales Funnel - Awareness Learning about the sales funnel a lot this week - might sound dumb but for as long as I’ve been on this site I’ve never looked at marketing the same way I looked at programming. I had a call with another user from BHW and there was the idea of building a scraper that...

Alright folks, it's been two weeks! What have I been cooking? Notifications Notifications enabled, and cloud functions to automatically send the notifications when 24 hours after you've completed a lesson. This was based off of the feedback I got from some users that they kept forgetting to use...

Admin Panel. Firstly, making the courses was a real pain. What I've done is updated the admin page, now I can finally edit pages as well as create pages using GPT. This means I can push out content a lot faster than I have been, and also edit the lessons. Which is a pretty important part of...

August Update Firstly I want to thank kshatriya for the kind words. I was really going through a lot from work and family life. I think this is kind of where the project I was building (conventa) became more of a chore than a fun project. The update from me is that work is finally over. I have...

What I've learnt from this? a) improving careers is kind of a shit sell. I wouldn't buy it b) the product is still young, I should get it ready before trying to flog it to people c) when I'm feeling confused that means I should take a rest. I just panicked spent money built a shit website and...

Heartbreak and Burnout :( Work was getting super stressful. I was burnout and there wasn't really any time to work on this. My emotional stability took a massive hit. I hated the thought of working on conventa and needed confidence in the idea. I decided I needed a confidence boost and the...

Burnt the fuck out. Work kicked the shit out of me - I work at a pretty intense software company, my mentor got fired so I stepped up for the sake of the team. Balancing everything killed me. I’m now taking a week off trying to rest but my brain keeps thinking about ways to make this thing work...

My Workflow So I wanted to share my workflow here incase anyone else had questions to the tech stack, the way I've started this journey. I start all of graphic design/UI/UX work in Figma. They have a new auto-layout feature which is a lifesaver when it comes to automatically generating flex...

@idfgjk8234 You both mentioned this and i have updated the app to have some basic functionality. @idfgjk8234 sorry i was under the impression when you said animation it would be super complicated and a whole ordeal. Actually ended up being super simple - and looks way better now. Thanks both!

Brand Identity and Marketting Okay so this was really good feedback. The automation of content was step one which I managed to get done (fairly well) and now step two is to generate a marketing plan. Now I liked what you said about running targeted ads on Facebook but I'm very new to this...

Okay so why the fuck am I not rich yet? You may be asking. The answer to that question is the product is still not ready. Feedback is pretty constant. I’m really happy with it. I’ve switched an option from imitation into assessments. Now it’s a pretty cool use case of LLMs which is nice...

Whoop whoop… guess who got his first few people on the app! Last week I managed to get a few more strangers to use the app and give me some feedback on how they’re finding the courses and website structure. I’m getting a lot of positive feedback for the courses. So people are saying it’s...

Update - Pushing P(roduct) I’m not an asshole but I don’t like LinkedIn recruiters. They keep bugging me about job opportunities even though it says in my bio I’m not interested. So I’m going to get these guys to test the product initially. I know there is a lot of bias here and the feedback I...

Hmmm that’s some solid advice. I would typically listen to you but unfortunately I do not want to spend more time on the product. Now I’m open to changing my view on this but I think I need to put something out there, in front of users otherwise this project stays a project and never becomes a...