Morning call with the team. Not much to report, still aiming to ship the rebrand build on Tuesday
Did team call. Notes left in Asana. Todo for me: Code review the massive Pull Request
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
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

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.
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