Day 490: Week 71 Plan

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Week 70

Goals

  • Foundation

    • ❌ Go to sleep before 11pm at least 3 times

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  • Browserflow

    • ✅ Add “Update Spreadsheet Row” in cloud
    • ✅ Add “Loop Spreadsheet Rows” in cloud
    • ✅ Add “Find Spreadsheet Row” in cloud
    • ❌ Develop onboarding plan

First, the bad news: I got stuck redesigning how spreadsheets are handled throughout Browserflow all week long (sound famliar?) so I never got to working on onboarding.

Now, the good news: Spreadsheet support is finally (FINALLY!!!) done. I’ve gone through several iterations of how to handle spreadsheets so that (1) they’re easy to use and (2) it’s easy to share flows that use sheets, and I’ve finally hit upon a solution that solves both well. I’m extremely pleased with the current solution and I’m confident announcing these changes to all the beta users so that people can try it out.

Week 71

Browserflow. Is. Ready.

There are still major parts to be done like setting up plans & pricing as well as having a better onboarding experience, but from a product standpoint, Browserflow feels complete. Like 1.0 complete. Like “it’s ready to launch” complete.

The reason why I’ve held off on sharing Browserflow more widely was because I knew there were some breaking changes I wanted to make (e.g. how spreadsheets are managed) and I wanted to do that before having meaningful usage on the platform. But now that spreadsheets are complete, and I’ve also built support for configuration variables which will make it much easier to import and run flows, all the major pieces are done.

And so, I’m switching gears. I still want to build a better in-product onboarding experience, but I’m honestly just excited to start getting people using Browserflow more so I’m going to “do things that don’t scale”: I’ll onboard all new users individually.

I’m not setting any coding goals for this week: It’ll all be focused around marketing and onboarding people. I have quite a few more people on the waitlist since the last time I started invited people off of it, so there will be plenty of folks to work with. As usual, I’m going to prioritize people with business use cases.

I can see the finish line. Let’s goooooooooo!!!

Goals

  • Foundation

    • Go to sleep before 11pm at least 3 times

      • will dk finally stop wrecking his body by depriving himself of sleep and zombie coding after weeks of nonstop failure to make any meaningful change? maybe this will be the week! stay tuned and find out during this week’s episode of Man Deludes Himself By Copying and Pasting The Same Weekly Goal Despite Failing for Over A Year!!!!

  • Browserflow

    • Onboard at least 5 people
    • Create Browserflow blog and share at least 2 use cases (mail merge, simple site scraping)

  • RELAX

    • srsly as much as i enjoy coding nonstop for 13 hours a day, i need to switch it up because i miss being a human being
    • maybe i’ll go on a reading binge!
    • my life is just one binge after another

Special shoutout to Shiva for sending me a great opportunity to share Browserflow 8)