HomeUpdate for the week ending on
Friday, Aug 20, 2021
Management
- 1:1 with software developer
Software development
- Reviewed PRs to convert the project to use ES6 modules everywhere
Product research
- Tested prototype of Voyager 2 in prototype case
- Met with EE vendor
Sales
- Published a preview of the Voyager 2
- Took photos of the Voyager’s custom case for an upcoming case study (no pun intended)
- Gave feedback on changes to TinyPilot landing page
- Wrote spec for illustrations
- Continued working on chapter about tutorials
- Refactored mailing list signup box in Hugo templates
- Spoke to a company about potentially selling Zestful.
- Gathered financial information for discussions.
- Announced pay-what-you-want week.
- It ended up working well - $657 in new sales, making it my best month since March
Misc
- Confirmed dates for two upcoming guest appearances on tech podcasts
- Returned to Wasabi as my secondary data backup provider.
- I was trying an indie cloud storage company for a few months, but they’ve pivoted away from data backups.