Week
49
No Contact Eng
Dec 01
  • Morning call with the team. Not much to report, still aiming to ship the rebrand build on Tuesday

Week
48
No Contact Eng
Nov 27
  • Call with Christian to debug App performance issues - link

No Contact Eng
Nov 26
  • Did team call. Notes left in Asana. Todo for me: Code review the massive Pull Request

No Contact Eng
Nov 25
  • Week 48

  • Tuesday: Conversation with Faith about where to focus. I'd like to venture more into paid ads as they're more predictable than our creators

Week
45
No Contact Eng
Nov 07
  • Data Setup

  • Explanations

    • Fivetran: This is not a data source. It's a tool we use to move data from external sources (App Store Connect, RevenueCat) into a postgres database.

    • App Store Connect: This is Apple. So it knows about installs, conversions and revenue.

    • RevenueCat: Tool we use to track our revenue

    • Superwall: Tool we use for Paywalls

    • Product Database: This is the app's backend. So we can use if for usage data (e..g how many people created a pledge or used chat), but it's also useful for registered users and active subscriptions.

    • Analytics Database: This is a postgres database we created solely to pipe data into using Fivetran, so that we could get our App Store Connect data in postgres.

    • Misc Database: We built a simple internal tool to track Video views across all of our creators. It's called "Misc" because we use it for various things.

  • Data Flow

No Contact Eng
Nov 03
  • Call With Ryan Thorpe

  • Ryan - the english guy we met at last night of Raga - linkedin

  • His background: Built a mobile app portfolio company - spent 10 years on it. Got it to a group of 25 apps collectively doing 8m ARR. Recently sold 80% of the apps & is now working on re-focussing - he wants to build something with the potential to be much bigger long term.

  • They seem like they had a super solid team. He shared a pitch deck they use to on-board their creators - link, and the system they built for onboarding creators and managing large amounts of videos, built on Airtable, which looked very thorough.

  • He also spoke about financing & liquidity - longer term they want to use the data to be able to offer financing to businesses, and to build a marketplace to buy & sell apps. Frankly seems like a lot to do well, but that's their play.

  • Their current focus is building a new product called Fload. In his words, it hooks up to all your systems and does 2 things: 1. Gives you a single place for dashboards & analytics, 2. Alerts you when metrics are moving in the wrong direction. We ran out of time but he asked that we do another call (with Faith) where he can onboard us & show us the product.

  • Full Notes on Granola