Update for the week ending on Friday, Oct 18, 2019

Is It Keto

• Zero sales this week, despite me trying lots of stuff
• Put a second meal plan up for sale as well as a bundle pack for both plans: no sales
• Dropped price from $15 per plan to $5 per plan: no sales
• Bumped prices to $10 per plan, but offered a 30% discount if users answer a survey about what they want out of the meal plans: zero responses
• Published a blog post announcing the keto meal plans
• Made some posts on keto subreddits to try to attract customers or feedback about the meal plans.
• Had my first in-person 1:1 with my writer
• Reviewed first draft of a new article
• Cleaned up some of the site’s CSS

mtlynch.io

• Continued working on my post about eliminating distractions
• Reached out to two more freelance writing podcasts to see if they’d talk to me about my guide to hiring writers.
• Followed up with a podcast I contacted last week
  • Got a polite “no”

Home Video Digitization

Last year, I digitized about 40 hours of my family’s old home videos and put them on a private media server for my family. I’m in the process of cleaning up my tools so I can publish a guide about this.

• Got my private Docker image to work with the latest mainline MediaGoblin code
• Updated my public Docker image to work with the lastest mainline MediaGoblin code + Python 3 (#31)

What Got Done

• Added the ability for users to delete published entries (#319)
  • If you want to do this, erase the content of the entry and hit “Publish”

Misc

• Did a phone interview with a reporter interested in tech jobs that turn unpleasant
• Made an appointment with a local accountant to talk about joining as a client

Dusty VCR

• Published episode #12: “Mrs. Doubtfire (w/ Tricia D’Onofrio)”
• Realized that Anchor is now the most widely-used podcast hosts
  • I think I evaluated them when I first launched the podcast, but was skeptical of the “free hosting” model, but now I may switch because I’m currently paying $15/mo on Libsyn.
• Booked guests for episode #14
• Ordered audio/recording equipment so that we can record two guests at once