Paying customers

This week is the last week of my Christmas break here in Denmark. I’m pretty excited about going home tomorrow and get back into my routine.

What did the Maker do? #

Last week I talked about how I had discovered Google Cloud Build and how much time it was going to save me. This week I began to wire Google Cloud Build into the app and it’s now able to run (hard coded) builds. This is a nice milestone because it’s the proof of concept proving that this approach will work nicely. The Google Cloud API was a test of my patience, but I’ve now started to figure out how it works.

I also finally got around to adding the logo to the manifesto website.

What did the Manager do? #

Most excitingly, this week I began charging the people that’ll be part of the early beta. I want to start out with a really tight group as mentioned before, and then I can always invite more people onboard later on. There’s something that never gets old about charging the first customer!

As part of signing up for the beta I ask customers to pick a time for an on-boarding call with me. First call is now scheduled on January 28th, which means I have a hard deadline. Fingers crossed 🤞

I also spent some time planning my personal goals for 2019. I’ve done this for a few years, even though I’m in no way religious about it. Even if I only reach a fraction of the goals it’s nice to sit down and think about my priorities. The past two years I’ve done this with my girlfriend, where we take some time off to sit at a café and talk about this goal setting.

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