Back in Issue #117, I wrote about the struggle of balancing work on new, shiny features with "boring" behind-the-scenes work that slowly improves the stability, UX, and performance of the app.

Especially when only one or two people have experienced an issue, it can be easy to say: "this is not a priority at the moment, I'll get to it later...".
 

But I've decided that in our quest towards excellence, it's high time that I started working on these things a little bit each week.

So now when I plan my week every Sunday, I declare one day "Bug Day" and the aim is to fix and improve as many product flaws as possible. 🤓

And in this journey I've realised that some of the feedback I enjoy the most is when someone spots a tiny quality of life improvement that I didn't announce anywhere and they DM me saying: "this is so small, but it's made a big difference to me." 🥰
 

I also managed to improve the functionality and safeguards around some librarian tooling, which kinda ties into the slow and steady "invisible" work I mentioned earlier.
 

A new set of giveaways launches in five days and I've told hosts that I hope to have a few new features ready for the next round, including new stats for their dashboard and better exports of winner data, so...I better get a move on...! 😅
 

I've wanted to read Anything You Want for a while now and I had the pleasure of recently meeting Derek at a conference! I could also do with a "read in one sitting" kinda book since I'm three books behind on my reading goal. 😩

Have a great week,

Nadia

P.S. Know somebody who's an avid reader or would enjoy following along with this journey? Please do forward this email to them! Thank you. :-)
 

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