Another Week Bites The Dust

I don’t know where the last week went…

Well, I do.

First, I had to get my hair (Black hair can be a whole-day affair) and nails ready for Friday evening, where I was being honoured at the 2026 Powerlist Awards Gala.

I was one of three finalists for their Technology & Innovation award! 🤩

I made a cute, short reel of my time there on Instagram.

Then on Saturday night we finally hosted our friend’s birthday sleepover that I mentioned a couple of issues back. (It had to be rescheduled the first time.) Thank you to everyone for the horror film recs. We used them to create a fun mystery selection game and my friend had only heard of about 6 out of the 36 recommendations so y’all really did your thing with the ‘under-the-radar’ part of the criteria. 👏🏾

Work-wise, we had some database replication lag issues, which I had to prioritise.

All of this meant that the work I was meant to be focusing on got waylaid.

And while I did manage to complete the functionality for customising what you see in your news feed and what you publish to everyone else’s, I didn’t have enough of a block of time to finalise the UI and deploy it to everyone.

So yeah, I’ve pushed the roadmap back another week. 😭

That leaves only six weeks for the UI/UX upgrade.

That’s enough time…right…? 😅

Individual Workshop Interest?

Last issue I spoke about the workshop I ran at my old high school’s startup academy. I mentioned that I was open to delivering it occasionally to groups of adults, as was originally intended.

A couple of people reached out saying they weren’t part of a company or organisation but would be interested in signing up to one of my workshops as an individual.

To that end, I’ve put together a survey to see if it’s worth me running these for individuals to sign up to.

If you’re interested in bootstrapping a company, or bringing the principles behind StoryGraph’s success to your job or side project, then please fill out this short Google Form.

Lady Tremaine Readalong

Top Three Book Club has just started a readalong for Rachel Hochhauser’s Lady Tremaine.

If the book sounds like something you’d be interested in, then please join us. You don’t have to join the club!

Nadia and Rob Answer Your Questions

We did our quarterly Instagram Live Founder Q&A the weekend before last. We covered what our favourite 2026 updates are, what’s on the roadmap for next year, whether we’re going to expand the team, and more!

What I’m Reading

One of my first library loans: Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher. Another one from the Top Three Book Club Fairytale Retelling longlist. The plan was to read it in one sitting on the day I started it… Well…that hasn’t happened. Perhaps I can finish it in one sitting tomorrow. 🤷🏾‍♀️

Oh, and I did complete the full 24 hours in Abbie’s and my readathon the other week. We’ve got another one scheduled for December 28th to January 3rd. 🥹

Have a great November,

Nadia