HomeUpdate for the week ending on
Friday, Jan 3, 2020
- Officially debuted the site to a small comedy Facebook group in Western Massachusetts.
- So far, this is the most engaged an audience has been for any new project I’ve launched.
- Currently, 100% of people I’ve reached out to want to talk about the site and are interested in collaborating in some way.
- Interviewed three comedians / comedy show hosts to talk about what they want from the site.
- Interviewed a comedy booker to ask about how he currently promotes his shows.
- Got verbal agreement with a local comedy teacher to run ads on WanderJest
- They’ll pay a percentage commission for each student who signs up through the site.
- Talked to a local comedian / graphic designer about designing a logo for the site.
- Reached out to an additional booker who agreed to a meeting next week.
- Reached out to a comedy theater who agreed to a call next week.
- Attended a local open mic.
- Registered WanderJest on Twitter and Instagram
- Published a new article on salad dressing
- Added some crosslinks between articles that were missing
- Fixed some dead links to related Amazon products
- Responded to a user question about using the open source ingredient parser
- Updated the documentation so that the instructions work cross-platform (they previously assumed a bash shell on the host system).
Misc
- Figured out my estimated tax payments for 2019Q4