Update for the week ending on Friday, Apr 3, 2020

Portfolio Rebalancer

Lots of procrastination because I didn’t want to design the landing page
Created a landing page
Registered a real domain (assetrebalancer.com) instead of squatting at my blog subdomain (rebalancer.mtlynch.io)
Deployed an API backend (so that I can have users register and pay)
Got partway through figuring out how to create Stripe subscriptions
Updated the About page to be a little less jokey than my original version
Sent cold emails to one blogger and four local financial advisors about the portfolio rebalancer, got zero responses
- I usually have much better luck with cold outreach. Not sure if it’s the problem space, my approach, or COVID-19-related shifted priorities.

Published my March 2020 retrospective
Continued work on my blog post about digitizing old home movies
Added support for “subscribe by topic” on my newsletter signup form
Switched back to MailChimp after I realized that Email Octopus doesn’t support list segmentation
- I need this feature to be able for the new subscribe by topic
I ended up creating my own abstract newsletter signup proxy
- This makes it so that the HTML for my the newsletter signup form on my blog never has to change because no matter which provider I use, the request always goes to https://subscriptions.mtlynch.io/subscribe and then that server acts as a middleman between my blog and the email provider.

Went through my Google AdSense to block ads from companies that seem to be COVID-19 profiteering
- e.g., hand sanitizer, N95 masks

Announced that I was ending support for my unofficial Sia Docker image due to frustration with the upstream providers.
- This prompted the upstream team to finally release their own official version, which is probably a good thing, but I need to review it more.
Gave a fellow indie developer some Docker pointers
Balanced my books from March
Finished my tax preparation.