What a week it’s been! Our house recovered nicely from illness to allow a somewhat normal groove of building.
Where last week was largely just getting things functional and into place, this week was about iterating, adding design, and improving the user experience. For example, we added a little bit more information to the marketing site:
And fleshed out user profiles a bit:
We also got a public changelog published that tracks all the updates that get pushed every day:
Really proud to have gotten the first round of invites sent out to our early access members, who have already helped provide some high-quality feedback and improvements. It’s been super energizing getting to see people start to flesh out their profiles.
A big focus going forward is going to be on more structured planning. Establishing a more well-defined roadmap might slow things down initially, but will help speed things up in the long run.
Aside from that, next week will most likely focus on one of the following areas:
Fleshing out individual project pages. These could be used to talk about and showcase a project or just use as a place to collect notes (publicly or privately).
Separation of projects and ideas. Projects should be showcased. Ideas should be disinfected and validated. This potentially relates to the need for a public roadmap and allowing people to provide feedback on those items.
If you have thoughts and feelings about which you’d like to see first, let me know.
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How you can help:
This week has largely been about refining and getting past the initial embarrassment of the earliest versions and getting to the point where I’m able to start gathering feedback from people that’s more than just “here’s my idea”.
If you’d like to get the latest and greatest updates as they happen, you can follow along on Twitter: @zackgilbert and @projectgardenco. Please feel free to send along your thoughts, high fives, recommendations, or any and all feedback.
And if you’re feeling really adventurous, you can always support this project by grabbing one of the 8 remaining Early Access Lifetime Membership spots.
Until next week, keep growing!