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February 2023 Update

March 1, 2023

Dang, February flew by! I bit off some bigger tasks this month, so it really feels like I barely made any progress. Then again, I always wish I was going faster, so nothing new there.

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January 2023 Update

February 1, 2023

It's been nice getting back into the swing of things after some time off around the holidays! As I talked about in my 2022 year in review, I'm trying to shake off my product tunnel vision and focus on marketing and sales in the new year.

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2022 Year In Review

January 18, 2023

As we enter 2023, I wanted to reflect on Teaminal's first year of business - what happened, what I learned from it, and what the numbers looked like. This helps force me to plan, keeps me honest about how things worked out, and maybe helps some readers improve their own businesses.

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December 2022 Update

January 1, 2023

I'm still working on this, but I continue to try and improve onboarding. Namely I'm now showing the initial "welcome" messages as created by Teaminal instead of the user themselves, which was a bit janky.

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November 2022 Update

December 1, 2022

The backlog refinement feature now integrates with Jira and lets you configure the options your team can vote for.

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October 2022 Update

November 1, 2022

It's only five minutes long, but getting a demo video recorded and edited took up a lot of energy this month. I'm really happy with how it turned out, though!

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September 2022 Update

October 1, 2022

I kept getting feedback that it wasn't super clear what you were supposed to do when you were dropped into the app. Which makes sense, since when I sat down and looked at it, every red square below is a place where you might have found something actionable...

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August 2022 Update

September 1, 2022

I'm feeling really good about August! I got a lot done, and did a couple user testing sessions where I watched as folks went through the signup and onboarding flow. It was simultaneously very illuminating and embarrassing to see where they got lost.

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July 2022 Update

August 1, 2022

July saw some decently big product updates! Most notably, I launched a new backlog refinement feature that lets your team vote on whether tickets in your backlog should be closed, need updated acceptance criteria, or are high/low priority. Best of all, Teaminal can automatically pull tickets from your backlog for review, and everything integrates with Slack.

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June 2022 Update

July 2, 2022

June was a super productive month product-wise, but emotionally it's been a bit of a rollercoaster. I've been working on Teaminal for over six months, but haven't signed up my first user yet, and that doesn't feel great.

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May 2022 Update

June 1, 2022

May was a great month! I went on a two-week roadtrip through the national parks in Utah, attended RailsConf in Portland, and then I tried to squeeze a month worth of work on Teaminal into the last week. I was only somewhat successful, but I'm still feeling good!

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April 2022 Update

May 1, 2022

Has it been another month already?! I never seem to get as much done as I want to, but I keep reminding myself that I'm just one person working on this part-time.

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March 2022 Update

April 1, 2022

Welp, I’m doing the dumb thing that engineers-turned-entrepreneurs do and avoiding talking to people by building more features. I keep telling myself that I’m in a competitive space so the app needs to be super polished before anyone would want use it, but I think I’m just afraid of failing. And ironically, that fear is keeping me from having any chance at succeeding right now.

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February 2022 Update

March 1, 2022

I thought I was going to spend the month working on sales/marketing, but I ended up focusing on development after getting feedback that the product just wasn't there yet. I'm a little disappointed in my lack of progress, but it was a short month, I spent a week of it traveling, and SAML SSO was a much bigger chunk of work than I expected.

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Newsletter

February 12, 2022

I haven't been doing a very good job of putting Teaminal out there so far. I've been telling myself that I just need to get the marketing site a little more polished or add another feature to the app first. It's scary to share something that's not fully baked yet.

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January 2022 Update

February 1, 2022

January was a big month! I built out a first version of the app, got feedback from several engineering managers in my network, added some more features that they requested, including Slack and Jira integrations, and I think I'm super close to my first team signing up.

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Hello, World!

January 1, 2022

I always hate when companies retcon their history to act as if the idea leapt from their head fully formed like Athena, so I wanted to write up the real story of how Teaminal came to be.

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