Harsh feedback
Asked for harsh feedback on my inherited web app talk and got it. Slides all titles, and I got quieter reading my notes.
Next time: a crib sheet, and learn the notes.
Micro
Short posts, the odd thought between longer ones. Newest first, and as a feed: /micro/feed.xml.
Idea debt
Recorded a rough podcast pilot 12 hours after reading about "idea debt". A rough episode out beats a perfect one in my head.
Two hundred agencies
Contacted 200 web agencies. Half said good idea, not buying. Three in ten said no. A fifth wanted details.
That's the market talking.
As big as it needs to be
Summer camp in a field in West Wales. Wrote down "Siftware is as big as it needs to be". Still working out what that means.
Backendy is dead
Backendy is dead. I'm not motivated to run it and it doesn't match who we sell to. A good start though. (2014 in review saw it coming.)
One problem, one person
We don't make PHP apps for anyone who asks any more. We solve one problem for one type of person. (How we picked it.)
It's just sales
Back from MicroConf in Prague. Went to find a SaaS idea. Came home knowing I already have a product, I've just been selling it wrong.
It's just sales. (Make life a side project, and three years on.)
New dev rules
New dev rules. No production deploys after 3pm or any time on a Friday. Devs push to test, never master. Thirty days free bug fixing on anything we ship.
The business of web design
The Business of Web Design in Cardiff. Geeking out about web business instead of web tech for a change.
Stop worrying, start winning
First non-technical talk tonight, Stop worrying start winning. Cashflow sheet, time tracking, goals.
Tracking properly found me four extra billable days this month.