Just Slightly Behind Schedule…

I really thought I was gonna make it this time.

I did get review comments out, at least!

And that has been a real joy:

All I had left to do, to meet my deadline, was:

• Add in a few new styles of news feed items to make it more interesting, e.g. celebrating goal progress and broadcasting public buddy reads

• Allow users to configure which of their activity is published to the news feed

• Allow users to customise what they see in their news feed (and allow filtering by users and muting users as a stretch goal)

• Add in the ability for people to comment on news feed posts

So yeah, not much…

And, in true over-ambitious, delulu Nadia-style, I backed myself to deliver it over the weekend… 👀

Well…just figuring out the design for the new news feed styles is taking time. 😅

I think I’ve figured it out now, though.

Here you go. A sneak peek for my loyal newsletter readers:

I did have to address some performance side quests.

FINALLY the lag on long lists has been taken care of:

There were several issues tied up in this but the biggest causes for slowdowns were the tag form being loaded and updated in real-time on each pane and each pane featuring, like, eight different forms/buttons. Now there’s only one big form powering book list views.

So…I’m hoping I can finish off the Community pieces listed above over the next couple of days and get onto the buddy reads/readalong merge.

Let’s Bootstrap A Startup

A highlight from the last couple of weeks was being invited back to one of my old high schools to run a workshop as part of their start-up academy.

I’d run this workshop once before, virtually, and to adults, and as I was dusting it off and adapting it for the teenagers, it got me thinking: this is totally something I can deliver now and again as a paid service. 🤔

So, if you want to hire me to run a 2- or 3-hour bootstrapping workshop, either virtually or in-person, where I go over everything from ideation to building an MVP, revealing the methods I use to build StoryGraph, then get in touch!

Free Trial Love

24 In 7

At the beginning of September, Abbie ran a readathon where the aim was to read for a total of 24 hours across the week. Abbie was off work for that week. Fair enough.

Now, I had no business doing this, but I decided to join in. 🤷🏾‍♀️

In what I would describe as personal growth, I said it would be irresponsible for me to attempt to complete the challenge, but that hopefully I’d read more than I otherwise would have done.

And I managed to read for 18 hours! 🙌🏾

Abbie then made the comment that she’d like to attempt it during a working week, and, naturally, I said: “Yeah, I’d like to join in on that!” 😅

And today marks the start of our lil’ readathon. 📚

But this time, I am much more prepared for it. I’ve kept my calendar clear and I’m condensing all of my working out to the morning and one location (the gym), foregoing my usual evening dance classes and tennis coaching session.

If you’d like to join us, please do so!

If you want to join us more literally, even for just part of it, you can:

• Read for one hour from 11am-12pm BST on October 21st or 22nd

• Read A Short Stay in Hell in one sitting (or during a walk on the treadmill, as I will be doing), starting from 11am BST on October 20th.

• Complete a Flightradar24 Reading Challenge on October 23rd. Min time 1 hour, max time 4 hours.

Let me know if you take part in any of these. 😁

What I’m Reading

On deck on audio, to eke out more reading time during the readathon, I’ve got Jane Harper’s The Survivors.

Have a great week,

Nadia