Highlights

• TinyPilot’s EU distributor is on track to begin sales by the end of August.
• I’ve freed up time by delegating responsibilities to my teammates.
• I miraculously became unstuck on two tasks that have been blocking work for months.

Goal grades

At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those goals:

Get my EU partner ready to begin sales by the end of August

• Result: We’re on track to begin sales by the end of the month.
• Grade: A

This went well. By next week, my distributor should have all the parts and instructions he needs to begin assembling his own TinyPilot Voyager devices. He’s on track to begin sales by the end of this month.

A transparent look at how I generated $11,517 in revenue from my indie projects in July 2021.

Highlights

• I’m struggling to get unstuck in two areas that have stalled for months: hardware development and hiring.
• I’m partnering with a distributor in Germany to begin selling TinyPilot within the EU.

Goal grades

At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those goals:

Publish a new release of TinyPilot

• Result: Published TinyPilot 1.5.1
• Grade: A

This release went well and came out on schedule. It didn’t have any especially exciting new features, but we polished existing features and paid down technical debt.

A transparent look at how I generated $6,861 in revenue from my indie projects in June 2021.

The Goal is an attempt to reevaluate business management from first principles. The book explains Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints, which states that in any business, the sole determinant of output is the bottleneck resource. To grow, a business has to identify its bottlenecks and reorganize business processes to address them. It sounds simple and perhaps obvious, but the lessons helped me to think about my own business.