BIP Month 1, Product 1 - Moneystack

Week 1 -

• After a 31 message slack thread we settled on the name - MoneyStack

• We kicked off the first of the designs (see image 1)

• The build began, we spent around 2 days and a couple of calls trying to figure out how each person would be excited and could get involved with the build - trying to play to each different strength and skillset

• That call resulted in 3 versions of the product (see image 2)

Week 2 -

• 24 hours later we decided to cut version 3. Why?

• We only had 3 working days to finish multiple versions of the same product.

• It would double the work for Josh and Tyler and they'd need to learn a new set of tools, help us to push through blockers, and do a bunch more research in general to figure out how to create a performance, scalable, reactive, and maintainable web app using Webflow.

• It’s possible (see version 2) but that workload plus building the Svelte version was too much for them to do in just 3 days.

• 1 week later we also cut version 2 so we are now purely focused on building in Svelte.

‍Note: @galluzzo_julian  did get version 2 with Webflow up and running - we'll dive into the pros and cons in a separate post.

Week 3-

• 1 week later..we have a functioning product

• We've added support for multiple models, editing, and deleting models, styling updates and a new date selector

• The code is optimised for faster calculations, and a profile feature is now functional

• The marketing site has been built

• The templates are working for drag and drop along with the ability to download and share the template

• User interviews are underwayOnto week 3

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Week 4 -

Last week of Month 1, Product 1.  

• Product Hunt launch

• New ideas from comments on PH launch; adding a currency picker feature, so folks can see in Euros, Pounds, Dollars etc

• Wrapped up on content, we finished with 70 pieces of content (blog posts, landing pages etc)

• Shared last week to do list before moving onto month 2 product 2