Pete Bernardo's Journal about building Punchli.st

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👋 Hey, I’m Pete Bernardo, and I’m the guy building Punchli.st. I’m using this space for a behind the scenes look at product building, being a solo-founder, and everything in-between.

latest posts

New Feature Update: Direct Linking, List-Only View, & Screenshots

🎯 Direct Linking to Items You can now link directly to an issue regardless of what page the item is on. We load the correct page of your project site as well as scroll down to the annotation. These links are public; you can reference the specific item with your team or client. 🗃️ List-Only […]

New Feature Update: Pages and Breakpoints

Screenshots and Pages One of the more significant UX issues we have seen over the last few months is that it was hard to know which pages had feedback already. It took a little hunting, and we didn’t do a good job of showing how to get to the page listing. Now we have brought […]

Read-Only Mode

Excited about this little feature since it came directly through customer feedback. Design Extensions in St. Augustine has been using Punchli.st to help get their client and team feedback. One thing they kept running into was feedback coming into late, so they wanted to be able to lock in all the feedback. We built a […]

Marking Items Done & Topics

When you are trying to get a project done getting your stakeholders to focus is key. The design has been approved and the last thing you want is to introduce the ability to change something that is baked. One of the key aspects of any review is to focus in on what you actually want […]

First pass at video onboarding

tl;dr; I have a feeling you are going to see more video onboarding within apps soon; people don’t like to read. It is pretty easy to get up and running with a video onboarding, but if you don’t want to read and just want to watch you can skip to the end of the post […]

Where am I heading?

For the last 20 years, I have been talking to clients about getting their projects launched. Starting in 1999, my neighbor asked me if I knew how to build a website. I didn’t, but within a few days, I had something running on Homestead (I think that is what it was called, o.g. Webflow 🙂 […]

My frictionless getting started

Until recently I had a pretty standard flow within my app. You sign up, create a project, share it out, and wait for feedback. I’ve talked previously about sticking to the critical path. I took a step back and consider how could I get a user to start collaborating on a project as quickly as […]

Critical Path

Often times we can get caught up with the hundreds of other things we think we need in our products but you forget to take that step back and ask if my core product flow is working. […]

No one wants to add a line of code

I am learning the hard way that demos and on-boarding are two separate beasts. Sometimes it’s hard not to confuse success in one for success in the other. […]

Why Solo?

Previously I wrote about what I knew I needed to learn in order to build a product. Occasionally I’ll get asked if I had so much to learn why was important to me to build Punchli.st alone. I’m sure there is some deeper psychological reasoning but the easiest way to explain it is I don’t […]