Highlights

• I launched my task journaling app, but it hasn’t attracted many users.
• Interviewing potential customers gave me a good idea for my next project.
• I earned $107 from Is It Keto and $123 from Zestful without working on either.

Goal grades

Publish a minimum viable product version of What Got Done

• Result: What Got Done is now live.
• Grade: A

I launched What Got Done on May 24th. It hasn’t gained much traction, so I’m debating whether to stick with it or focus on other ideas.

Next year, I’ll be entering my 10th year of being formally employed to write code. Ten years! And besides actual employment, for nearly 2/3 of my life, I’ve been building things on the web. I can barely remember a time in my life where I didn’t know HTML, which is kind of weird when you think about it. Some kids learn to play an instrument or dance ballet, but instead I was creating magical worlds with code in my childhood bedroom.

Early last year, I launched a nutrition site called Is It Keto. From November 2018 until March 2019, the site was my full-time focus. Every month, visitors increased by 50% to 150%, an exhilarating growth rate that far outpaced any of my previous projects.

There was only one pesky detail standing between me and tremendous profits: money. For every dollar I spent on the site, I earned back ten cents. For my non-business-savvy readers, a -90% return on investment is considered less-than-stellar. At the end of March, the site’s financial future seemed bleak, so I shelved the project.

An insider’s story about Facebook in the years leading up to its IPO. It’s surprisingly candid — it names names and exposes internal Facebook discussions that were never meant to be public.

An engaging read, but the narrator is painfully obnoxious.

Highlights

• Is It Keto’s revenue doubled to $82.44 with zero effort on my part.
• My task journaling app is almost ready for publication.
• I’ve begun setting up meetings with potential customers about my next project ideas.

Goal grades

At the start of the month, I gave up on Is It Keto and set goals to help me pursue other projects. Here’s how I did against those goals.

Learn Vue.js

• Result: Went through the Vue guide and used Vue to implement a basic site.
• Grade: A

I’m not fluent in Vue, but I’m “conversational.” I can create a website with the features that I want without getting tripped up by the language itself, which is more than I could say about Angular after 6 months banging my head against the wall trying to use it.