Boom Devlog 11: Measure Features 1

This video documents the first week working on the Measure feature for Boom Languages.

Summary

Feedback

Investors would want to see more on:

• Expected returns
• ICP: Ideal Customer Profile
• Marketing plans
• Empirical results: research, benchmarks, etc.
• What’s done, not what’s planned
• User growth

Presentation:

• Clarify audience
• Have an agenda
• Emphasize uniqueness of solution
• More about features/skills of language learning
• Better format / production quality
• Multiple videos

Other:

• Sprints, not weekly tasks

Demo

See video

Schedule Update

All tasks complete for W1 and W2! Ahead of schedule.

Reflection

Challenges:

• Mostly just technical challenges

Successes:

• Kubernetes maturation
• Login/register
• Log features
• Mongo to postgres migration

Lessons learned:

• Helm: DIY is better
• The simplicity of NoSQL is not free
• Make sure you await someCall() if you want to try/catch its exceptions!

New tech debt:

• Fix log edit on mobile (too long)
• Validate edit log form

Dev plan

• S1: MVP
• S2: Users, UX
• S3: Video Translator
• S4: ?

Slides

Slides used in this video are here.