Day 03: Learning from previous failures

Rapid iteration seems to be the answer

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Matt Gallik
June 02, 2023

Hi 👋!

Welcome to all new subscribers 🥳. In this newsletter I document my journey of building out a profitable💲online business as a software engineer. Focused, but not limited to, topics about building a SaaS.

So, what was the progress from yesterday?

Coding progress

So, I managed to setup a new project for the price quote templating app. It has a very basic layout. The stack is my usual poison NextJS & TailwindCSS.

Personal progress

From an operations point of view, I realized, that the key to keeping myself motivated is to release quickly. I tend to have a serious feature creep syndrome (meaning I add features endlessly without ever finishing the previous one). To overcome this, I figured I should just release within a week. I think it definitely is possible, so that is what I’ll do.

Perfectionist Pete: But what about having user management? Can you do that in a week?

No I cannot. But I don’t need to. If noone will use my tool for free, then who cares. If I manage to get a massive overload of people using my app, it won’t ruin me as it is cheap to run. I will obviously collect user emails. That should be enough for an MVP.

What is the plan for today?

The plan is to finish up the templating page to allow a user to create a quote. I might be able to wire up the backend part as well - meaning you actually might be able to save your data. I might purchase the domain which I will unveil tomorrow, what name I have decided to go for.

That should be it for today, right? Short and sweet, lets get cracking for today. We have a deadline coming. We need to release in a few days! 🥳 🍾 

All power into your day!

Cheers,

Matt