At my last job, status meetings with my manager were outstandingly efficient. He never ran me through the typical drill of listing list off everything I did since our last meeting. Instead, we jumped right to the meaty topics of career growth, team development, and challenging technical problems.

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.

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.