Hello everyone! I sort of didn't stick to the tasks list I set last week. Most of what I did was actually prep work, learning things I didn't know in SEO and content marketing. It was totally worth it. Here's my weekly progress update for https://useherald.com:

🥅 Goals for the past week:

• Put marketing plan in to action
• Add banners feature in the widget
• Show an example of banner on the website
• Ship waitlist feature (last one before I launch)

✅ Finished:

I spent most of the time learning SEO and copy writing for landing pages. I got some very useful feedback for copy writing. I'm working on updating the copy for the home page.

• Did some SEO work
• Started a blog for Herald and wrote an introductory blog post. Couple more articles in progress.
• Add banners feature in the widget
• Ship roadmap feature (only the dashboard part. Public roadmap is almost done. Went with roadmap instead of waitlist because I needed it for Herald)

🎯 Actionable goals for this week:

• Update home page copy using keywords
• Create features page
• Update product images
• Finish public roadmap page
• Launch!! 🚀

🙃 Struggles

It's been nearly a month since I started working on this. I've made good progress too. While I could keep working on it, I'm not gonna wait anymore and just launch. Herald has enough basic functionality, enough to show what's possible. So it's time to launch.

Hello everyone! I hope you're having a fantastic weekend. This was a pretty good week. I finished all the tasks I set out to do and did some more work. Here's my weekly progress update for https://useherald.com:

🥅 Goals for the past week:

• Add ability to create custom changelog templates
• Add pictures of widget and public page to home page
• Figure out how to get signups
• Deploy app in the monorepo

✅ Finished:

• Add ability to create custom changelog templates
• Add pictures of widget and public page to home page
• Figure out how to get signups
• Deploy app in the monorepo
• Add banners feature in the app dashboard
• Add a simple blog to write about Herald

🎯 Actionable goal for the this week:

• Put marketing plan in to action
• Add banners feature in the widget
• Show an example of banner on the website
• Ship waitlist feature (last one before I launch)

🙃 Struggles

I've made this mistake before and I'm on the verge of doing it again. As a developer, I like to build but I haven't spent nearly enough time on marketing. That changed this week. I've been studying how to go about marketing my product. This week I'm slowing down the building a lot (whatever coding task I set are pretty trivial) and work on some of the marketing stuff I've planned. Honestly I feel like I'm way out of my depth 😅, and feel anxious but I gotta do it. That's the only way to reach my goals.

Hello everyone! I hope you're having a productive Monday. Here's my weekly progress update for https://useherald.com:

🥅 Goals for the past week:

• Update the home page with better copy
• Add signup form
• Fix Netlify build issue when using the widget
• Work on the public changelog page
• Add ability to create custom changelog templates

✅ Finished:

• Update the home page with better copy
• Add signup form
• Work on the public changelog page
• Fix Netlify build issue when using the widget

🎯 Actionable goal for the this week:

• Add ability to create custom changelog templates
• Add pictures of widget and public page to home page
• Figure out how to get signups
• Deploy app in the monorepo

🙃 Struggles

No struggles as such. Figuring out the Netlify build error took up more time than expected.