Roadmap Update

Q1 is over (fast, as per), and we’re six days into Q2.

Let’s see what the roadmap is looking like for the next few months:

There are still several ‘2025 Roundup’ tasks not yet complete. I’m going to divvy up the remaining work into the relevant upcoming blocks, e.g. reading challenge redesign stuff when I get to my reading challenge block (not pictured).

I’ve already lost a week (and a day; today) in the current 4-week block due to travelling to NYC to visit my brother for his birthday. I planned to do a lot more work than I’ve managed to get done but such is life.

Now I’ve only got three weeks left for what we’re terming “Operation: Stay On Postgres” (amongst other maintenance tasks). Our conversation with Sean Lingren a couple months ago really hit home with how much optimisation we can still do with our current database setup. We might end up on distributed architecture again, but we want to avoid that for as long as possible.

Sorting Reviews

It’s been a long time coming, but it’s finally here. 🥳

More filtering options are on their way but the sorting combined with the rating filtering has already made our review pages so much more functional. 😎

Bonus Feedback

I received such great feedback on the trial bonus newsletter for paying subscribers that I’m going to keep doing them! 🙌🏾

WOW: Another Book-Inspired Workout

This partner workout was inspired by Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, which I’ve not read. Would you recommend it?

If you’ve got a workout buddy, grab them and give this one a go. Can you beat our time? 👀

MKBHD WVFRM

Marques Brownlee (aka MKBHD) is one of the most famous — if not the most famous? — tech product reviewers, and on the latest episode of his Waveform (aka WVFRM) podcast, producer Adam Molina named StoryGraph as his number 2 all-time favourite app. 🥹

What I’m Reading

I’m finally getting around to Omar El Akkad’s One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. A short but oh so mighty read.

Have a great week,

Nadia