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 š…
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…
How and what did you need to learn?
tl;dr Everything. One of the thing that surprises people when I talk to them about building Punchli.st is the fact that I had never written software before. I’ve always had a technical slant to my work, but I always leaned toward design and strategy. So one of my fundamental goals with Punchli.st was to learn…
What’s Punchli.st
I built Punchli.st because keeping track of what is still not done and what issues everyone is running into is hard especially when you are racing to launch….
Where to start
I’ve been meaning to start this blog about my experiences building Punchlist, but it requires writing and putting myself out there, so I decided that was not fun and put it off… till now….