• Too much going on. Need to get focused and will then report.

• Working on book and also helping on my wife's side project

• Spoke with Rob Fitzpatrick writer of The Mom Test. It is looking like we might do some kind of partnership on the first IndieFounder book.

• Written first part of next section "Why I'm a relevant source of advice"

• I finally completed the intro to the book. This took a few days with each session lasting a couple of hours. I always find that these things start of slow and then get faster as I get further into the project.

• Started writing again. Just working on the intro for this second version that is just about free traffic.

• No book work today, just too much other stuff to do

• So I'm feeling pretty good about the TOC now I'm moving on to write the main outline.

• Last night's table of contents has gone through quite lot of iterations, I am feeling much happier with it today. Getting close to closing the iterations and to start writing.

• Working on a 1st pass table of contents for the new book
• Created a 1st pass at a table of contents. Sent it to 14 beta readers and shared it with some folks in Nugget.
• I'll be honest, it's really late and I have no idea if anyone I sent it to will like it... AND that's the reason why you send it to people BEFORE you write the book. ;)

• Have created a first pass framework of the new book content (pre TOC). Sent it to some beta readers, waiting for feedback!

• Working on the chapter "Get Unstuck" of the book IndieFounder

• I am making headway with this IndieFounder book. Currently on chapter 3.

• I have finished a first pass of the preface and the intro for the book done. Next up I will write a chapter "your path starts here" and give a broad over view of the different possible ways indie founders can make money online.

• I have started writing the new book IndieFounder!

• Almost 900 folks in the bootcamp now.

• I have clarity about my direction for the new year. I will be stopping work on the game Slider and starting to re-brand Nugget to IndieFounder.

• The first part of that re-branding will be to write a book (an enhanced version of the bootcamp) see brand and book below:

• Working on new book idea

• Made a decision to rebrand Nugget to IndieFounder

• Thinking through a pivot for Nugget

• Boom, we hit 800 in the bootcamp!

• 789 in the bootcamp, can't wait to hit 800!

• Bootcamp is filling up. Almost at 800 people :)

• Making some nice waves with TechZing

• Recorded a podcast with Adam Wathan

• All caught up on the day job. Still feel like laying of Slider for a few day to prepare myself to get into "the zone".

• Family day!

• Continuing to tale a break!

• Taking a break from Slider until next Wed I think. Catching up on day job stuff.
• There are now 600 people enrolled in the bootcamp BTW

• Taking a break from Slider for a week!

• Taking a break from all side project stuff for a few days. Lot's of things to do with the house and day job.

• Lot’s to do on slider but going to take a family day

• Released the first version of group races for slider!

• Soo close with Slider challenges. Stuff always takes longer than I want and I always have less time than I need ;)

• I think I got the core logic of group races working. Now I just need to present the results to users after each race.

• It’s been more complicated than I imagined creating the group race functionality in slider. That said I think I am 85% of the way there at this point.

• Currently building a rounds based system for slider after much analysis of player behavior
• Going to try to check in here more often being inspired by @andyd

• Removed weld scripts on Slider

• Not sure where to start. Have done so much with Slider!
• 2,278 folks have played it now
• Top 10% have played from 20mins to 6 hours in game
• Added new scoring mechanics
• Fixed a lot of bugs that were breaking things for player types on different device types
• Currently working on a player rounds (race starting in 30 seconds) mechanic

• Lots of work on Slider

• Lots of work on Slider

• I tried Twitch for the first time and streamed myself coding Slider.

Here's a clip:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/792558635

• Slider is live and being promoted via ads. I've plugged in analytics too. based on 1,000 play sessions I'll decide where to go next.

• Plugging in analytics to slider.

• More work on slider stats
• Created slider icon

• Plugging in analytics to slider

• Refactoring Slider and turning it from a linear game into a systemic one
• Got Slider ready to plugin analytics

• Setup ROJO so I can edit Roblox files in my regular text editor (Atom)

• Still at Grandma's

• On a trip to Grandma's. Not really getting any side project stuff done. Need to use spare time for the day job.

• Family day

• Lots of work on Slider, and I forgot to say that the last few days as well

• Polishing Slider ready for the grand finale

• Got the level unlocking working for real in Slider

• Started building slider inventory system

• More work on Slider, now saving challenge keys ready for display and use to unlock challenge gates

• Got data storage, pills, power, level up working in Slider

https://www.loom.com/share/ed1d4a5f4fdd43ba8e9f7ae9b6ca8449

• Added flowers and grass to Slider

https://www.loom.com/share/bb4e7c0d5eb74aae8d0357f3331d0171

• Added Emperor Zorg to Slider

• Next up is to build out an awesome level up animation for slider.

• 399 people started the bootcamp.... will there be one more by the end of today?

• Some great progress made on the Roblox game. Now it stores and displays your main score as you complete challenges.
• Same for XP and also started on the timer function.

Got some nice exposure for the bootcamp thanks to this nice Tweet by Indie Hackers -https://twitter.com/IndieHackers/status/1311749733791260672

• Worked up an intro idea for Slider

• Family day again!

• Family day

• More work on Slider

• More work on slider

• Working on more slider stuff. Should be able to start posting videos of the game pretty soon.

• Created an awesome effect in slider for after you complete a challenge and collect XP

• Family is staying with us so lots of kids age 2-6 in our house right now! Let's just say it's kinda hard ot get any work done ;)

• Created an awesome XP added effect in Slider

• Working on slider roblox game

• Family day

• Family day

• Monitoring the bootcamp. Continuing to think about how to get more folks to finish it.
• More work on slider backend

• Now I've had 300 people start the bootcamp I'm getting a good idea of completion rates. The industry standard is 5% and the bootcamp is currently 11%. But I know for a fact I can get it much higher since the academy is about 50% completion rate. I'll be working on that over the next week before any more major pushes.
• Nugget how has 6,930 users

• Refactored roblox game code
• Starting to work on server side of roblox game
• A lot more people going through the bootcamp
• Bootcamp to academy conversions not working so need to make it better

• Having unexpected discussions that might lead to unexpected things

• Family day

• More work on the roblox game
• More watching what is happening in the bootcamp
• Also a family day

• Recorded a podcast with Justin Jackson http://techzinglive.com/page/1696/333-tz-interview-justin-jackson-catch-the-wave

• Fixed some scaling issues for one of my day jobs

• Watching how the bootcamp unfolds

• Refactored all the code in my Roblox game, now it looks much more like the kind of code framework I'm used to!

• Pushed out bootcamp to mailing list
• Happy for my momentum to be at 75 closest I've had it to 100 in a while :)

• Working on Slider

• Set a Bootcamp launch email to go out to 4,500 people on Sun morning. It's a very cold list so a good result might be 100 folks clicking into the bootcamp.

• More tweaks to the bootcamp journey

• Getting ready to send an intro email out to alumni members

• Changed my mind about the way I will create nugget testimonial will be using a zoom for an interview instead

• Tweaked the bootcamp landing page and also initial emails.

• Created an intro for the reactor podcast

• Working on final part of bootcamp / academy journey

• Inviting founders to record video for the bootcamp!

• Getting ready to release the bootcamp for real. Just need to ask some academy members to make a short testimonial video.

• More monitoring of bootcamp. Getting closer to sending out to my list,.

• Continuing to monitor bootcamp and get a sense of how to improve the journey for new folks coming in

• Continuing to monitor Nugget bootcamp tech

• Monitoring bootcamp tech

• Monitoring the launch of the new bootcamp and checking it's all working behind the scenes.

• The Indie Founder Bootcamp is now soft launched!
• I will be testing and tweaking in production over the next few days

• More procrastinating on the bootcamp ;)

• Working on the bootcamp for real. Getting very close to pushing the new nugget.

• Working on releasing the bootcamp

• Working on the new Nugget journey. Setting up the home page as being the bootcamp and simplifying Nugget if you are new.

• More work on the game

• I must confess I have the madness about my Roblox game and I am finding it super hard to complete the Nugget work.

• Been working on my roblox game but circling back to releasing the new bootcamp

• Back at it after a week off at Grandma’s!

Finding it hard to get my head in the game today. Just one of those days I guess.

• Working on new Nugget site for bootcamp release

I’m liking my new Mac Book Pro

• Finally finished (and paid) tax.

• Family day

• Yayy! Bootcamp "content" is finished! Now I need to think through how the whole journey works.

• Finished "Set a price point that fits YOUR goals".

• Reworking the price point lesson in the bootcamp. Found an actual golden toilet that was sold for $10,000.

• Working on bootcamp edits.

• Bootcamp edits. Need to make the last 4 lessons as good as the first 3.

• Family day +
• Thinking about how to fix the bootcamp
• Thinking about game mechanics for my Roblox game
• Switched out 3 light fixtures in the house

• Well, my sister reviewed the bootcamp and it turns out it's NOT ready. She really liked lessons 1-4 and then I lost her from 5-8 because it was too developer focused. So I need to re-work to include digital product people as well as coders. Also need to keep the same flow/quirk. Ultimately this will also have an impact on the whole academy. /cc @laura
• I tested a game motion mechanic to my Roblox game and it made both my kid and myself feel sick. So, not going to do THAT then.

• Bootcamp ready to go! I just need some female founders to review it. Have been working hard to make that happen, but it is harder than it sounds!

• Feeling great because I am so close to launching the bootcamp!

• Reworked the audio tape for the marketing section
• Started playing with Roblox studio just as an experiment but now I think I have the beginnings of a game

• Recorded 7 of 9 speaks for the bootcamp. I have technically finished #8 as well but I don't feel happy about it so will probably re-work it.
• I'm enjoying that the momentum number is 0-100. It feels much better to have a momentum of 75 than 5 and feels more reflective of the effort I'm putting in.
• I could work for the next few hours but feeling like just taking a break and vegging in front of the TV.

• Hired a Roblox dev and started talking to him about building a small first test game to see what the land is like.

• Thinking about Roblox and the idea of making a game to make some cash a side side side project.
• Man I really have to record the audio for each bootcamp lesson but for some reason I am finding it hard to get motivated.
• Ok. I have now recorded 3 of 9 "tapes" for the bootcamp.

• Changed the name of "Momentum Tracker" to "Momentum Blog"
• Made the Momentum feature free for all Nugget members - to give @theill a run for his money ;) - and also to give people something to do after they finish the bootcamp
• Re-worded the verbiage around the momentum feature to be "Hustle" based.
• Momentum is now 0-100 because 100 is a BIG number f*** yeah!
• I should probably be cranking on the final part of the bootcamp right now but at this point I feel like having a break :o

• Bootcamp written lessons are finished!
• Starting to work on the Speak audio for each lesson.

• Fathers day

• Worked on the wife's site for the past two days. We released an on demand version of her Play Therapy Certificate. Completely automated the giving out certificates in accordance with various regulatory authority guidelines. https://playstronginstitute.com/certificate

• Created 9 "buttons" that will open a Speak at the end of each lesson. Some examples:

• Lots of work on the bootcamp. Plugging in Speak to every lesson.

• Working on last lesson of bootcamp
• Finished the bootcamp! Now I just need to create an exit page and make it easy to get into the bootcamp from everywhere inside nugget.

• Family day

• I just have 1 more lesson to go on the bootcamp (and the exit page)

• Just 2 more lessons to go! (and an exit page)
• 2 lessons left!

• Recorded Reactor podcast
• My buddy is making this Nugget branded backpack for me as present for fixing his server.

• Call with @laura to discuss the bootcamp. As always, she helped my thinking sooo much.

• More work on the bootcamp

• Hi this is a demo

• Bootcamp on make something people want

• Finally making some better progress on the bootcamp

• More bootcamp

• BC

• skiddly-diddly-bootcamp

• Boooootttcammmpppp

• All over the map. Bootcamp and other stuff.

• Sigh, more bootcamp. Taking way longer than expected.

• More work on bootcamp really want to get this thing done!

• Putting out fires in the day job

• Working on the bootcamp lesson 3 - "MARKET: Pick a market you can reach and sell to" split the lesson into 3 parts. Just finished part 1.

• Working on the house painting and such

• Bootcamp

• Day jobs

• Family day

• Family day

• Well, you probably already guessed, i'll be working on the.... bootcamp.
• Spent about 4 hours building a carrot farm in Roblox > Sky Blok with my kid!

• Finishing up page 3, lesson 2 of the bootcamp

• Yet more work on the bootcamp! I Started this thing on the 23rd of Apr. and am now 20 days in, and still only 2.5 pages in (of 9). My current goal is to try to get the review version ready by next wed. 20th.

• Hoping to finish up lesson 2 of the bootcamp!
• Now on Page 3 (of 9) of the bootcamp

• More bootcamp

• More work on bootcamp!

• More work on lesson 2 of the bootcamp. With this much time sink, it better be good!

• Continuing to working on lesson 2 of the bootcamp

• Still working on lesson 2 of the bootcamp - context

• Working on lesson 2 "context" in the bootcamp

• Showed the bootcamp intro v2.0 to a few founders and @laura and I think I've got it now. Next up moving on to lesson 1.

• I think I finally finished the indie founder bootcamp intro page, again

• In preparation for the new Indie Founder Bootcamp I created a new single source of truth bio page - https://nugget.one/jv

Feeling like the bootcamp intro needs some tweaks as have shown it to a few folks and I don’t think it is instantly landing in the way I want it to.

• Happy to get a momentum of 6. I sort of wish it was out of 0-100 instead of 0-7.

• Finally got a complete draft for the intro page of the bootcamp, this is going to be good!
• list

• Had a great call with @laura about the bootcamp she really helped me get my head clear!

• More work on the new bootcamp
• My computer kept randomly dying and I was able to fix it with some $10 shareware what the heck. https://realmacmods.com/product/macbook-pro-nocrash-utility/

• Working on the bootcamp. Outlining thinking about it from 1st principles perspective.

• Another family day but did get a chance to think about the new bootcamp content

• Family day!

• Mocked up final screen for the day job, hoping to start dev on Monday
• Great call with @laura about the new bootcamp

• Dang it, can't believe I missed a checkin day and I've only been going for 2 weeks. How in the heck do you do it @theill !!
• Got the home page template ready for the new bootcamp
• Finished up 1st pass sales copy for new bootcamp landing page

• Thinking through the new Nugget startup bootcamp
• Great to see so many folks checking in their momentum
• Completed a large chunk of the new nugget bootcamp

Note: Still using big ass text file for task management until Taskflow becomes a little more sophisticated

Taskflow

• Now auto compiling multiple module js files into single js file
• Can now change task status by clicking a status icon. Exciting!
• Make “timer” icon work
• Now able to use Taskflow as rudimentary task manager
• Think of a way to slice and dice entire system by project (aha, context)!
• Add way to edit the title of a task
• When set status to "done" push to top of done list
• List tasks by bullets on start view
• Fix input box on add task tool

• Added some refinements to Nugget enroll journey
• Re writing the lesson for success in Nugget
• Showing Georgie how momentum works when posting from Slack
• Working on Taskflow snapshot page
• Changed the concept of "status" to the concept of "when" in Taskflow

• I have been having a fair amount of discussion with founders via email answering questions about the Academy
• In other news, the current batch is almost full, 2 spots of 15 left. Also I now think that 15 is the perfect size per batch. Just enough to create a sense of community but not too much to be impersonal.
• Hacking on trying to make a dogfood version of Taskflow work for me, didn’t get too far

• Tweaked nugget sales funnel to better represent activity going on here
• Updated login icon on Taskflow
• Can now add tasks to for real to the database in Taskflow

• Installed an SSL cert for an old client that I seem to keep doing support for even though I built the website about 5 years ago
• Played game of Roblox Naval Warefare with the kid and his buddy in Ireland
• Worked on mockups for day job
• Signed up to the latest batch apollo7-jets as myself (with a REAl cc no less) because I am going to dogfood nugget and experience it as a student while I work on Taskflow. I'm especially interested in rounding out the final modules.

• Recorded episode of reactor podcast
• Meeting with day job about the direction of mockups
• Created a static html based todo list inside Taskflow that lists the tasks that are the fastest path to creating a real database driven todo list! So, ironically still working within the context of a big ass text file to manage my tasks ;)

• Starting work on Taskflow add task popup
• More work on dayjob mockups

• Added T&Cs checkbox to checkout journey for day job
• Playing Roblox with my kid

• Family day with the kid plus a little bit of mocking up for the day job

• Shoveled a mountain of snow so that we could get deliveries in and the car out
• Working on mockups for the day job

• Came up a with a new strategy to promote Nugget by creating a free course with 7 lessons something like “Foundation of Business for Indihackers”. This comes off the back of a few different discussions, meetings, discussions in my new podcast, and thinking about the final nugget module and other serendipitous goings on.
• New batch apollo7-jets filling up nicely
• Played 1h of Roblox Adventure Up & Naval Warfare with my kid

• Finished up work on the momentum tracker allowing all academy members the capability to check-in momentum updates directly via Slack.

• Replied to various folks emails reaching out about Nugget

• Created a giant shopping list for the next 1-2 weeks of living during CV

• Now auto adding bullet point to Slack momentum checkin

• Added plus icon to Taskflow ready to make adding tasks work for real

• Going to level up to the same momentum as @theill part of that will be by adding momentum checkins directly from to slack using /momentum My update etc.
• This is the first momentum check-in directly from slack using the /momentum command

• Launched new batches for the current COVID-19 situation.
• Am going to enable users to be able to checkin momentum directly from slack.

Lot's going on. Now moved into the new house. Frantically working on the day job. Planning on what to do with Nugget next.

• Closed on the new house now working out how to move there and all the other fun stuff like setup wifi etc

• 2020 might be the year of Nugget. I have plans on how to get lots of people to join us here.

• As always a lot going on. The main thing that is taking up time these days is buying a new house.

@jsh Where you go?!

• Not writing too much here but lots going on as always!
• Posted today's nugget.

• Completed HTML/CSS now ready to start creating schema

• More work on html/css stuff

• Working on frontend html/css

• Building out a CSS/HTML framework

• Working on HTML/CSS step journey

• Wife's birthday!

• Working on lot's of stuff behind the scenes

• Talking to Merott
• I'm not able to work on Speak too much due to family and day job commitments right now

• Lot's to do for the day job and other life stuff so not very much progress on Speak for me right now.

• Spending the day working in a co-working space (rather than at home). It's a new concept for me!

• In Denver for business meetings

• Still in Vegas baby!

• On vacation in Vegas

• More work on Speak API docs

• Starting work on the Speak API

• Academy enrollment window now closed
• Some work on a project for the wife

• Family day!
• 7.5 hours until Academy enrollment is closed down

• Kid is sick so watching him today
• Posted today's nugget.

• Ack. Working on everything except my side project Speak.

• Ugh, took car in for service and other work.
• Some coding work with drip to clean up the Nugget email list.
• More API documentation for Speak.

• My guests have gone home so now I have a week to do some work before another set of guests come for 10 days

• Launching new Academy batch

• More vaycay

• Commissioned a new HIT to get more startup ideas for this place
• Posted today's nugget.

• Renewing nugget.one SSL

• On-going vacation with family who are over from Ireland

• Friends in town vacation!

• More work on building out the docs for the Speak API
• Irony: It takes longer to write the API docs than to make the API itself....

• Working on speak api

• Posted today's nugget.
• Working on Speak API

• Feeling quite frustrated with the design of Speak. Thinking I might hire a designer or move to a template/css framework.

• Listened to @jsh's speak. Not bad for first attempt!

• Redesigned the Speak dashboard because I like pretty dashboard with pretty stats. Also, here are the results of the betalist launch.

Sent 11 invites to beta testers

• Completed on boarding pages now I need to "Speak" them
• Silly me I made an entire "open prompt" system that I didn't need. Removed all the code and schema.
• Recorded "Speak" vocal tracks for new on-boarding pages. Wow, this stuff requires voice acting skills!
• Posted today's nugget.

• Just noting that I am following the academy process and building a seed group. The strategy I am using is the BetaList strategy.
• Created new slack group for Speak seed group
• Stats for today's soft launch:
• Speak Home Page Views: 341
• Unique Users: 269
• Speak Demo Plays: 165
• Speak Demo Completions: 92
• Speak Beta Signups: 22

• Speak Private Beta officially live: https://speakhq.co
• Submitted Speak to Betalist

• Change of plan. Just going to release a version of speak where users can apply to beta test it.
• Posted today's nugget.

• Dreaming up machinations of a new podcast to promote speak

• Posted today's nugget.
• More work getting cloudflare to cache speak assets

• What @nugget said ;)

• For speak, moving away from the idea of supporting browsers and instead testing javascript for the available features and if not available the fall back to a more basic version of that feature.

• Family day

• Family day

• Launched private beta of Speak on FounderCafe

• Created a way to record a personal speak for any logged in user
• Invited second customer to test out Speak
• Recorded a personal intro for the new customer
• Recorded 3 general on-boarding speaks
• Thinking about the best psychographic profile of new customers to invite

• Posted today's nugget.

• family day

• Posted today's nugget.
• Pushed first speak live. For realz.

A checkin for the past 3 days:

• Re designed opener to be much more prominent
• Auto open widget after X seconds (set by user)
• Auto close widget after X seconds (set by user)
• Num times to auto open (set by user)
• Tracking state by cookie for above (including last played location)
• Stats - loads, impressions, users, opens, duration, dropOff etc.
• Enable Speak to keep playing correctly during a browser resize
• Hover over peeking widget show "Title of thing - by Joe Bloggs"

Will be launching on a customer site for real tomorrow.

• Base HTML/CSS for new opener prompt
• Posted today's nugget.

• Installed Speak on a customer's website today for realz! Lot's of bugs to fix and tweaks to make now that I have real customer feedback.
• Posted today's nugget.

• Posted today's nugget.
• Making a commitment to keep posting nuggets. It's difficult because the quality of answers from Mturk has gone way down.
• Speak is ready for the first test customer to use I will be sending them an email tomorrow.

• Now logging and computing stats
• Building dashboard next

• Very first version of Speak is now live ready for @jnoetzelman to test out.
• If you haven't seen the demo you can check it out here: https://stage.speakhq.co/demo/nugeteers
• Posted today's nugget.

• Had a breakthrough. Watch this space.

• Family day

• Family day

• Polishing animations
• When you get right to it. There's no point not building the basics of user accounts, and profiles, because that is going to be a major ask and I'm going to HAVE to do it and it's just going to take a max of 1 week up front right now vs much more legacy work. Also, it's going to make that mid plan even more valuable from the get go. I guess this is where it pays to wear the tech hat and the business dev hat at the same time.
• BUT before that I'm going to make a quick demo for you lovely Nugeteers
• Just tried to record a demo for you guys and...it is totally borked. So... I'll be working on fixing that then. Hopefully have it in hand by end of weekend.

• Polishing up the website widget
• On the one hand quick and dirty is the way we're supposed to go... on the other hand 2 hours refactoring and normalizing can just make everything else so much faster.

• Creating stub HTML/CSS code. Grunt work to be honest.

• Got some major UI work done.
• Will be starting to build the main player tomorrow.

• Auto bake obfuscation as I browse around local dev
• More grind, can't wait to be on a few customers websites. Really want shit to be real.

• Family day
• Working on obfuscating code

• Recorded podcast

• Had a great chat with a seed who really helped me understand the premium features that will sell this product
• He is going to use the product (it's a widget) on his site
• So yayy I have my second test customer with a SaaS app who's going to try it out for realz.

• More work on the secret project

• Gah, stuff always takes more time than you think. I've got about 10 more enhancements and bug fixes and then I'll be able to make a short demo to show to friends and family.
• Was happy to see that TechZing was quoted by Justin Jackson in this post here: https://justinjackson.ca/niche

• Lot's of thinking about how to progress

• Continuing to work on secret project not quite ready for reveal getting closer.

• More work on the secret project getting closer to the reveal

• More lots of work, just sayin'

• More work. So close to the reveal!

• My report card looks a bit spotty but I am working on stuff every day, maybe a little to obsessively to remember to check in. ;)

• I've had difficult problems to solve like how to keep accurate time in javascript because... it doesn't accurately keep time!

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29971898/how-to-create-an-accurate-timer-in-javascript/29972322#29972322

(Hint, none of the above answers easily solve my specific issue)

• I'm getting close to an alpha release candidate for the project I'm working on. Looking like it may be as early as 2 weeks (stretch goal). With that in mind I've been looking for some inspiring marketing podcasts. I like the look of these:

• https://www.eofire.com/podcast/

• https://neilpatel.com/blog/

• I'm hoping to reveal the new project to you all by May 25.

• Getting close to be able to talk about this thing!
• More work getting to alpha.

• More work on complicated stuff that I will be able to start talking about within the next week or so

• Made something that was complicated work by accident. Then spent the rest of the day trying to work out why it was working. Finally understood it after 4 hours studying it.

• Internet has been slow and spotty for months. Turns out the provider put some kind of filter on there because I got an "internet only" account and that cause the issue. Anyway, fixed now and getting 110 down and 14 up. So much better!

• Making real headway on the important stuff. Almost ready to really start sharing what is going on.

• I haven't been posting but only because what I'm working on is still under wraps. I am continuing to progress every day and will try to check in daily moving forward.

• I haven't checked in for a few days but have made significant progress on the new project.

• Was able to get much more work done than anticipated today!

• More work on new project

• More work on book. More work on new secret project.

• New life problem - prioritization. When you're working on 3 equally important projects it's hard to decide exactly what to do on which...

• Now the [redacted] can see of the [redacted] is logged in

• Taking some time to think about the book. Perhaps the voice is too formal. Not sure.

• Day watching the kid
• Cracked the [redacted] problem for the [redacted]
• Edited podcast

• Recorded podcast

• Creating schema for [redacted]

• Posted today's nugget.
• Working with a friend to create a brand blueprint

• Removed social logins
• Created coming soon message
• Created stub dashboard
• Completed account edit username, name, email screen
• Completed account change password screen
• Added admin capability to create new accounts and invite testers
• Removed all traces of username from codebase as not required for this app

• Posted today's nugget.

• More work on the book. Still. On. The. Intro. Ack!

• More book. Stuck on the introduction.

• More work on the book

• Working on the Founder First book

• A member of the family is ill so we are spending the day in hospital

• Family day

• Created new app on facebook for oauth login
• Created local and staging app for facebook oath
• Deployed and tested FB oauth on local, stage and live
• Created new app on Google for oauth login
• Deployed and tested Google oauth on live
• Google not working on local or stage. Too much of a pain to implement, meh, not worth it.
• Rejected a bunch more idea submissions because they were spam from Mturk. Getting much harder to get non spam submissions these days.

• Rejected a bunch of idea submissions nothing good enough for a premium nugget
• Created staging and live app on Twitter for oauth
• Twitter oauth tested & working on all environments

• Created new mailgun account
• Setup mailgun dns records in Route 53
• Added mailgun config to salt and dev
• Purchased SSL cert
• Installed cert into stage
• Ran salt setup scripts
• Speak staging server is now live!
• Launched new AWS DB instance for live
• Setup salt config file and salt states for live
• Added beanstalk dns entry set to private ip
• Tested cli jobs
• Tested cli email
• Setup AWS load balancer
• Added live instance to it
• http://speakhq.co is live!

• Salt is now almost fully provisioning a Speak server
• Because of moving from ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 I needed to move jobs service from /etc/init to systemd which was... painful
• There were also shenanigans working with php 7.1 and getting salt to provision memcached and image magic
• Laravel is now correctly running on the command line, and jobs are working fully

• Setting up RDS database for staging server
• Fighting with salt all day to get the staging server up and running. No luck yet

• Applied to twitter for a developer account for Speak
• Twitter approved the developer account
• Login via Twitter now works
• Auto create account via Twitter now working
• Opened new AWS account for Speak
• Configured AWS security groups, AMA users etc
• Launched micro EC2 instance for salt server
• Configured and installed salt stack on salt server

• Join with password now working
• GDPR geo lookup now working
• Resend validation now working

• Let's do this
• Got standard job processing working
• Delayed job now working
• Scheduled job now working
• App now sending email
• Now sending email via the queue
• Outgoing email design (logo etc) setup
• Sending password reset email

• Ported the Nugget codebase to a new repo for Speak
• Designed the final logo
• Got general header/footer working
• Added terms, privacy, contact page
• Added login page
• Got user/pass login working
• Got /logout working

• Posted today's nugget.

• Posted today's nugget.

• We're going to the beach today.
• Yesterday was my 3rd day of 30m on exercise bike just before bed. This seems to be having a positive effect.
• The Laravel upgrade has not caused any major issues so far, knock on wood!
• Hoping to do some work on new project by end of day.

• Posted today's nugget.
• Family day

• Exercising makes it easier to have the willpower to do work.
• Upgraded Laravel from 5.5 - 5.7 with Laravel Shift (and a bunch of work)

• Unable to do much work today because family in town

• Posted today's nugget.
• Beginning setup of new Laravel install

• Pulling back from the investment idea for the new project and going to bootstrap as usual.
• Aligning myself with the fact that I need to get back to the daily grind of building something.

• Demo call with JP and Nugeteers

• Family day

• Working on raising friends and family funding round for new project.

• Great office hours call with Nugeteers today.

• Posted today's nugget.
• Mocking up new project

• More work on new project which is taking more twists and turns into unexpected areas
• Posted today's nugget.

• Posted today's nugget.
• Lot's of looking after the kid, but trying to fit in small amounts of work on the new project where possible.

• Posted today's nugget.

• More work on new project

• More work on new project

• Posted today's nugget.
• 50 years old today.

• Posted today's nugget.

• Family day

• Mostly working on day job #2

• More work on new project
• Final founder call that was left over from academy doors being open
• Posted today's nugget.

• Added Payment History to the Nugget account screen. This enables Nugget members to download invoices.

• Family day

• Academy enrollment has now been closed for realz this time.
• Completed basic HTML/CSS and design for Speak landing page

• Academy enrollment officially closed

• Just showing Todd around Nugget

• Posted today's nugget.
• Big changes happening in my day job
• Starting a new side project in addition to Nugget

• Thinking about a new idea I had that might turn into a new side project on top of all the other stuff

• Lots going on behind the scenes

• Posted today's nugget.
• Lots of talking to nuggeteers

• Improved Axe ideas that don't fit with the physics of business thanks @lees
• Just had a nice call with a founder. No sale. Need to work out how to sell this thing! Problem is no one can understand how important/good it is for them, without them doing it.
• Great call with a founder I met on Indi Hackers

• With the help of @chrisfranklin I was able to setup and publish some Facebook Ads. The goal is to drive clicks to the Nugget ideas landing page. I'm sure there will be a lot of tweaking moving forward. The ad-system has an interesting feature where it lets you add up to 5 variants of images and text. Then it mixes and matches them on display and shows more of the best performing version. Let's see how it works out over the next few days.

Here's one variant:

Also of note, I need to add a couple of fields to the user table that log the referring source and the campaign name. Will be looking up best practice.

• Posted today's nugget.
• Finalized new free-to-paid journey for Academy

• Still being helpful on Indi Hackers. They've invited me to be part of their new founder stories series. Luck Surface Area in action. Here's a screen shot of my profile and follower amounts for posterity.

• Thinking about stages 10-12 of the academy. After the latest nugget work I think they just need to be completely different to planned.

• So may variables in my brain right now. It's hard to focus with so many plates up in the air.
• Running new free-to-paid funnel test based on learnings from @steven1 and @alexcosan - Thanks guys!

• Posted today's nugget.

• Working on a new funnel idea
• 3 no shows on founder calls. One is not amused.

• It looks like 14 day free trials (with cc) is the way to go with the Academy. Am building out the site to allow us to test that (and then switch back if necessary).
• Posted today's nugget.
• Note to self: Don't push new env variables to all the live machines unless you know you actually need them.

• A couple of founder consult calls

• More being helpful in IH

• Watching the kid

• Got Nugget approved on Indi Hackers. Well, now you all know the revenue for realz ;)

https://www.indiehackers.com/product/nugget

• Following the Academy growth strategy of being helpful in a community. In this case IH. 86 Nugget signups yesterday. But of course that only works because the lead magnet of 4K free startup ideas is so strong. So, yep, it’s a great strategy, but your LP and offering needs to offer something that folks from that community actually want.
• Posted today's nugget.

• Wondering if I should make a "dark mode" for nugget

• Posted today's nugget.
• So close to finishing the new marketing funnel I can taste it. Tastes good!

• Great to see so many posters here!
• Getting close to new marketing funnel release

• Posted today's nugget.
• I'm still very much in learning mode with regard to bringing on board new users into the Academy. I have not yet started to find new ways to bring users to the site because there is a trickle every day already, and I want to learn from those existing users before going hog wild and paying for ads and such.

• First mastermind call. Realized that we're going to need a lesson explaining how to make the most out of those calls.
• Posted today's nugget.

• Posted today's nugget.
• More thinking through marketing stuff

• Spending today with the kid will try to get to make a nugget if I can get time later
• My sis came up with some great ideas for Nugget marketing during yesterday's conversation

• Showing my sister all about Nugget
• Posted today's nugget.

• Posted today's nugget.
• 3 founder calls planned for today
• I'm still trying to nail down how to convert new customers without squeeze marketing. I have some new tests to try. I'm still not actively bringing in new users until I can learn the conversion tricks. I have some ideas based on some recent customer conversations.

• Posted today's nugget.

• Updating http://justinvincent.com because a customer told me it looked bad and also because I'm going to start blogging again.

• Posted today's nugget.
• Great to see more people posting!
• Finished editing and releasing an interview with a co-founder of Zapier

• Posted today's nugget.

• Well I wasted the last 2 weeks making a marketing video, now moving on to a different strategy to try to get folks on the phone :)
• Posted today's nugget.
• Created a new funnel that offers people to have a 30 min consult after they take the quiz.

• Posted today's nugget.
• Yayy, finished the sales video (I hope). Going to send it to a few folks to get feedback. Fingers crossed.

• Man this marketing video is taking longer than I had hoped

• Working on new marketing video

• Posted today's nugget.

• Posted today's nugget.

• Helping a friend move their house. Fun! ;)
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• Posted today's nugget.
• Winding down from the holidays and gradually getting ready to get back in to work mode

• Thinking about and planning the new sales video

• More vaycay

• Haaaappy holidays to one and all!!!!

• Ok, this is hard core holiday time right now...

• Happy holidays everyone!
• Spending the day with the fam doing things like baking cookies...
• That said, I'm going to try to get the script written for my next marketing video

• People keep asking "How is the Academy different to other programs? How can I be sure that this is the right place to invest my time and money?" so I'm making a video to answer those questions.
• Posted today's nugget.

• Customer calls
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• Sent email out to the main list letting them know the academy is open for business

• Posted today's nugget.

• Finally, new marketing site and signup journey fully live

• Released new marketing quiz stuff to live
• Posted today's nugget.

• Posted today's nugget.

• Working on new quiz idea

• Posted today's nugget.

• Posted today's nugget.

• More work on new drip campaign. It has been really taxing to write day 2 of the new drip campaign. I have been woking on it for a week.

• Posted today's nugget.

• Have been sick for a few days

• More work on new drip series
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• Posted today's nugget.

• Posted today's nugget.
• Working on new drip campaign

Note to self:

A realized idea represents "a mountain of reality". The closer it is to reality, the harder it is to change any aspect of it. As an idea becomes more realized the more it descends through multiple "layers".

Here's an example:

1. A thought in the brain
2. A note on a napkin
3. A bullet point list
4. A discussion with someone
5. A discussion with a group
6. A light specification
7. A wireframe mockup
8. A hifi mockup
9. A database schema
10. An API endpoint
11. Some HTML & CSS
12. Some javascript
13. A deployment to a test server
14. A QA developer testing it
15. A push to production

We should double down on iterating in layers 1-5 and try to get as close to the truth as possible before we move to the other slower layers.

This strategy is an exponential game changer. The fastest place to iterate is layer 1.

(Just want to record it here. Will probably put it in a blog, or the course, or both)

Thanks to @alexkuang for inspiring this.

• Posted today's nugget.
• Project planning meeting with @laura

• Call with jjn. Reworked some of the sales page
• Added a new popup to the buy button that ensures users agree to a few things before they can buy.

• Posted today's nugget.

• Pushed the new marketing site and also rolling batches live. So, now, anyone can join any time they like.
• Next up is marketing
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• Added intercom to the site to see if it helps with sales. Let's see what happens.

• Posted today's nugget.

• Posted today's nugget.

• Posted today's nugget.

• Happy thanksgiving everyone!
• Posted today's nugget.
• I think I finally understand what I need to say in "The Why" video. Will be working on the content over the next week or so.

• Posted today's nugget.
• Getting ready for thanksgiving that never even used to be a thing when I lived in the UK.

• Family day
• Commissioned 50 new idea hits

• More work on marketing copy
• New marketing site is now almost complete. The only thing left to do is to create "The Why" Founder First video presentation.

• Added fixed header to new marketing site
• Ran final awesome case study interview with @charlesbrockman!

• We’re going through the “No daddy! I want to do it!” Phase. Opening the front door. “No daddy! I want to do it!” . Pouring a glass of water. “No daddy! I want to do it!”. Opening the fridge. “No daddy! I want to do it!”. Every. Single. Thing.
• Need to take a break. Feeling burned out on this marketing stuff.

• Scheduled for another case study call today. This time with @codyrigney
• I'm almost annoyed enough with having to hunt down and copy and paste usernames to build in a username lookup into this chat box right here. Not quite annoyed enough but almost.
• Awesome case study calls with @habibalamin & @codyrigney

• Awesome case study chat with @tdmiller
• Editing case study

• Will be interviewing Chris along with more work on the marketing site

• More work on the marketing site. Main focus has been Problems we solve?, Are you a good fit? and FAQ
• My first case study call will be tomorrow with @chrisfranklin

• Oops.
• Family day.

• Working on marketing site "problems we solve"

• More work on the marketing site

• Working though all the bugs that @laura found when she tested the new rolling batches stuff
• Continuing to create new deep marketing based website

• Ongoing work on the next iteration of Nugget
• Posted today's nugget.

• Wife is teaching a course all day so looking after the kid today.

• Finished rolling batches, working on new sales site

• Posted today's nugget.

• More work on the new startup academy driven nugget
• Relentlessly cutting old code
• Created stub marketing pages

• Posted today's nugget.
• Stripping out all of plans and pricing account upgrade code
• Removing any capability to upgrade to the "Momentum" plan
• Moving forward there will only be one product here THE NUGGET STARTUP ACADEMY
• Removing legacy nuggets definitions, plans and code that is years old

• Family day

• Family day
• Posted today's nugget.
• Conceptually simplified the new plans and pricing page to a single orange button "Join the Academy", feeling a huge weight lifted off my shoulders.
• My momentum dropped to 5.3, ack. Need to bring that up!

• Added Spark Lines to project checkin page.

• Family day

• Improving function that auto adds user to super-seeds Slack if complete stage 5
• No longer sending academy nudges if there was a momentum checkin within the past 2 days

• Posted today's nugget.
• Update project/create page so URL is optional (when first creating logo)
• Auto add user to nugget-heroes Slack if complete stage 7
• Auto add user to super-seeds Slack if complete stage 5

• Posted today's nugget.
• Removed shift + enter from submitting momentum
• Cron script to remove command line history from all machines

• Watching the kid
• Recording TechZing podcast
• Keeping up with the gemini's
• Posted today's nugget.

• Going to camp Snoopy!
• Posted today's nugget.

• More work with new gemini batch
• Posted today's nugget.

• Hosted webinar
• Launched gemini offer
• This has been a long day, ready for some sleep!

• Finalizing Gemini launch and webinar

• Posted today's nugget.

• Released latest TechZing podcast episode 315.

• Posted today's nugget.

• Working on webinar deck

• Work on new batches.

• Posted today's nugget.

• Some work on a presentation

• Getting ready to bring new batches in

• Family day

• Developing ideas around Founder First

• More work on founders and profiles
• Posted today's nugget.

• Released founder projects and profiles

Ah crap, I forgot to check again so broke my streak. I kind of like how unforgiving it is.

@theill better watch his back.... it's not me who's going to break his record it's the system! ;)

• Posted today's nugget.

• Working with Jason on Math Academy
• Recorded a podcast
• Working on profile stuff
• I thought this new project growth tracking stuff was going to be a breeze, done in a few days... it's not ;)

Note to self, however easy I think something is, multiply it by X

• Posted today's nugget.
• Helping wife work on her office.
• Created schema and models for founder projects
• State machine for add project html/css

I always forget that one of the most time consuming parts is to make the end-to-end user journey actually make sense.

• Working on new profiles stuff

• Floated a brand idea past academy members

• Posted today's nugget.

• Completed CSS/HTML (including responsive) for 4 of the 8 screens needed for the new founder profiles stuff.

• Creating a noop api endpoint to ping and keep the session alive while the browser is open.
• Posted today's nugget.

• Spent time chasing my tail about Nugget brand
• Posted today's nugget.

• Recording podcast
• Helping Jason mock up Math Academy
• Posted today's nugget.

• Family day
• Created a database cleanup script
• Realized we were over optimized with AWS ElastiCache so switched to a smaller instance.
• Posted today's nugget.
• I note that I am really liking Trello

• Planning session with @laura
• Talking with Academy members
• Created email campaign for new lower cost Momentum plan
• Finished up mockups for new Academy Profiles, Batches, Leaderboard & Project Checkin

• Posted today's nugget.
• Mocking up new project checkin page

• Planning session with @laura
• Work on making new middle plan possile

• Posted today's nugget.
• Now storing all comments in a cookie (and repopulating when you reopen the comment popup) so that if you loose connection, or timeout, or accidentally close the modal, the comment you were working on will not be lost.

• Working with batches

• Posted today's nugget.
• Worked with Jason on mockups for Math Academy

• Building an Ikea bunk bead
• Posted today's nugget.
• Noting that this is an nice amount of checkin's from everyone for a weekend. Nice!

• Working on posting momentum to slack
• Wrote lesson Learn about the product “It” factor

• Checking in on mercury batches
• Starting to get busy around here. Nice!
• Posted today's nugget.
• It paid of to be harsher rejecting the mturk answers that were bad. There seems to be a few good ones this time round.
• Wondering how to deal with the busyness of this screen with more users posting here. One idea might be collapsed/expandable comment threads (unless you're in the thread).

• Starting to get serious about rejecting mturk submissions. Just rejected almost 50%. This is a new strategy for me.I have been accepting almost all until now. It seems like I have been targeted by spammers.
• Posted new TechZing podcast episode The Full Stack Entrepreneur. This is all about the future direction of Nugget and how our next major plan is to bring Mentoring online in a big way. Note: All Lifetime Alumni will automatically get access to these updates.
• Posted today's nugget.

• Watching new batches start
• Family day
• Fixed academy bug
• https://nugget.one/academy/batch/mercury-hawks/progress
• https://nugget.one/academy/batch/mercury-sharks/progress
• https://nugget.one/academy/batch/mercury-seals/progress

Wowzer. #mercury-hawks are rocking this!

• Helping my buddy Jason mock up Math Academy

My kid Jack, who recently turned 4, said today: "Mummy, Daddy, sit down, I want to have a conversation with you".

So, we sat down, I said "What do you want to talk about Jack?"

He said, "Mummy, Daddy, where do babies come from?"

• #mercury-hawks have 2 members posting to today's momentum before the academy is open. Could this be a sign? Game on: #mercury-seals & #mercury-sharks ;)

• Batch matched the mercury intake with @laura

• New mercury batches almost started working on matching them up..
• Posted today's nugget.

• More work on the mercury offer, things progressing nicely.

• Stopped using Teamwork for our shared inbox. There are lots of reasons why I really did not like that product offering BUT the main one was... They got us to signup for a one year plan and then one month into that they changed their plans and pricing (by doubling the price). I would not mind if they grandfathered us in but they put up a blocking modal that forces us to upgrade to the new plan at 2x price, or you just can't use the system. Well, goodbye "Teamwork" ;)
• More work on marketing the new mercury batch

• Ship mercury, launching in 1 hour
• Posted today's nugget.

• Got tomorrow's marketing push ready, spinning up a couple of servers just in case there's extra load that I'm not anticipating.

• More painting of the wife's new office
• Posted today's nugget.

• Helping the wife paint her new offices

• Posted today's nugget.
• Need to write marketing email for ship offer that will be sent out on Tuesday morning.

• Posted today's nugget.
• Sent ship offer to previous academy applicants
• There's a weird but where it is not showing profiles of anyone who has signed up for the ship offer. Looking into it.
• Fixed weird profile bug

• Completed mercury ship offer will launch next week

• More work on ship mercury offer

• Updated wildcard SSL for Nugget
• Wrote a quick post about corrupt Mechanical Turk submissions

All of a sudden, building Nugget, doesn't seem so hard.

• Posted today's nugget.
• It's going to be another family day and then I'll be working with Jason to help him mock up Math Academy.

• Family day

• Posted today's nugget.
• Ok, I think I'm done with the new batch assignment system and the new ship deal offer system. Next up is to design the first ship offer landing page and then one time offer on the backend.

• More work on the new mercury offer. Hoping to ship on the 20th or 21st.

• I selected 5 submissions in mturk where they had submitted no data or only 1 word and I clicked approve instead of reject by mistake. $5 down the drain. Doh!
• Posted today's nugget.
• Posted episode 312 of TechZing the tech startup podcast I co-host. There was a fair amount of talk about Nugget.
• With ship, if no offer selected within 1 hour, then auto assign to base offer

• Have done a fair amount of low level work to make the new startup academy launch offers work. It's basically the opposite of how we used to do batch signups. I'm calling the new system ship (internally) as in SPACE SHIP ;) Each offer will be the name of a planet starting with Mercury moving out to Neptune. The first offer will be the mercury landing at nugget.one/ship/mercury (not live yet).

• Working on new release
• Lots of talk with batch members
• Posted today's nugget.

• Posted today's nugget.
• Started work on new marketing drive

• Thinking about Nugget plans and pricing

• Added new lesson to Stage 6 Learn how to build your seed group with Facebook Groups
• Edits to Learn about different payment gateways you can use to collect money based on @laura's feedback.
• Posted today's nugget.

• Working on the wife's project.
• Sent marketing email to 5,700 Play Therapists

Of course, after I send that email, all the inodes on the server were used up because of silent linux upgrades. 1000's of unused linux header files on the system. So when the mail was sent out php sessions caused the disk to overload inodes so all systems broke down. In the mean time about 25% of people clicked links in the email and stuff wasn't working.

• Completed writing Stage 9, Step 10: Learn about different payment gateways you can use to collect money
• Reviewed an excellent lesson that @laura wrote Learn how to turn your customer interviews into copy for your sales site. She created the lesson by synthesizing a book written by Joanna Wiebe, one of the best online sales copywriters out there.
• We've almost finished stage 9. Just a few actions left to write. It is the money shot, literally! Very powerful stage. Where a real business is born.

• Posted today's nugget.
• Working on lesson Stage 9, Step 10: Learn about different payment gateways you can use to collect money

• Posted today's nugget.

Had to discard 30+ submissions to get this on here. That's the longest streak of unusable submissions I've seen to date I think.

• Finished writing lesson Stage 9, Step 9: Learn about different methods and platforms you can use to build your sales site

• Posted today's nugget.

• Family day.
• Took kid to Leo Carrillo Beach. Chased the Crabs and other creatures.
• Recording podcast.

• Family Day

• Posted today's nugget.

• Posted today's nugget.
• Discussed Learn how to turn your customer interviews into copy for your sales site with @laura

• Not too much time for Nugget today. Any spare time I had was working on the wife's side project.

• Posted today's nugget.

• Posted today's nugget.
• Finished writing Stage 9, Step 5: Learn how to set your starting price point

• Family day

• Family day!
• More work on Stage 9, Step 5: Learn how to set your starting price point

• Posted today's nugget.

Started lesson Learn how to set your starting price point

• Posted today's nugget.
• More work on Stage 9.

• Working with various batch members.

• Posted today's nugget.

• Chat with #beta-cats @jeanpaul about his top idea picks.
• Watching kid.

• Family day
• Posted today's nugget.

• Got a new car

• Added tweak to mturk lesson. Basically to give some hints on how to choose a niche.
• Completed lesson Stage 9, Step 3: Man on wire
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• Started work on lesson Stage 9, Step 4: Learn how to structure your sales site
• Added a final sanity check to make sure that only viable ideas get past Stage 4, Step 7: Pick your top three ideas

• Posted today's nugget.
• Finished lesson Learn the physics of sales in stage 9.

• Chatting with some #beta-cats about the niche and mechanical turk lessons.

• Posted today's nugget.
• Checking in on #alpha-dogs and #beta-cats
• Working on wife's side project.

• Checking in on the #beta-cats!
• Recording a podcast
• Based on work I did with @habibalamin and @jsh I created a new Stage 2 lesson called Learn how to generate ideas using Mechanical Turk. I felt I needed to get it in there real quick since @johngarcia is racing though Stage 2 and I wanted to get it in there before he (and other #beta-cats users) get to Stage 3.

• #beta-cats launches today! Just 2 hours to go
• #beta-cats are live!

https://nugget.one/academy/batch/beta-cats

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• Working on finishing up Stage 8

My car broke down, my oven broke down, my fridge broke down, my tv broke down.

Well... Universe... you don't need to give me any more hints.

I just got out my 2TB HD and I'm backing up my Mac Book Pro as we speak

(232GB of 646GB completed so far)

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• Posted today's nugget.
• Now auto embedding youtube videos that are posted to these comments.

This was not a great day for me. I was mainly focused on selling my car that was on it's last legs. So now we're down to one car that is 100% electric and only has a 60 mile range. Yikes.

• Posted today's nugget.
• Discussed online learning paradigms with @laura
• Watched England loose the World Cup
• Watched the kid

• Nice chat with @jhunter about academy progress
• I've decided I'm going to let go of worrying about people posting things like xyz does already it or this exists already on nuggets. I've already put in a lot of messaging that explains that doesn't help move ideas forward. I even look for http in the comments and show an alert not to do that. But, at some point I just have to let it go. I can't police everything. In any case, it's good to have new folks coming through the site. Moving forward I'm just going to upvote them so they get some karma for participating.

• Posted today's nugget.

Thinking long and hard about how to handle different people's use cases in the academy. One size does not fit all. Now we need to figure out how to handle that.

• Posted today's nugget.

Doing some hard thinking about the course structure after your product is validated (i.e Stage 8+)

The complexity is that there are so many different product types but as we have it planned right now it assumes a standard SaaS product. But, what if you validated an info product? How does it fit then?

Wondering if there should be some kind of branch event after stage 7 and, if so, how can that technically work within the platform.

This is complicated by the leaderboard system that compares all founders in the same way.

• Thinking more about stages 8-12
• Posted today's nugget.

• More work on marketing
• Talked with chris and habib about startup academy idea
• Completed new nudge feature for academy members
• Posted today's nugget.
• #beta-cats now has 9 people confirmed. We just need 1 more person to complete the batch. If you know anyone you think would be a good fit let them know.

• Happy 4th everyone!
• Posted today's nugget.