Bi Weekly Sync

We hold 2 meetings a week during which we cover a set of consistent questions. We ask a consistent set of questions to make sure we stay aligned with our over arching goals.

We ask these questions in active form to force ourselves to take responsibility. The answers should include an explanation.

We meet Monday and Thursday at 3:00 PM.

Questions we answer every time:

Stats

Have we done our best to acquire more sellers?

What did we accomplish since last meeting?

What did we miss and why?

What will we do before next meeting?

What did we learn? (Anything)

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10/10/16

Stats

Have we done our best to acquire more sellers?

What did we accomplish since last meeting?

What did we miss and why?

What will we do before next meeting?

What did we learn? (Anything)

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10/6/16

Stats

• Num beta testers: 6

Have we done our best to acquire more sellers?

No (still not super relevant). Collecting beta users. Sent a couple people the sign up link.

What did we accomplish since last meeting?

• Sent out the beta sign up link to 5 (we were deliberately holding back)
• Bulletin Board (new friend, friend posts, need bank, new message)
• ios10 permissions for camera and photos
• set up Google for with beta questions + follow up email.
• talked to Erlibird CEO, turns out to be too expensive
• Jordan learning react native
• First draft Pre-Launch checklist
• React Native style refactoring & percentage.
• Mission statement

What did we miss and why?

• Clerky (we're blocked on them)

What will we do before next meeting?

• Designer friend coming next time. Goal is to get feedback on (1) bank flow, (2) details page and (3) what can a designer do for us (what should we pay for).

• Matt

• Accept user agreement & privacy at sign-in ( + settings page )

• bulletin for when your item is purchased.

• update end screen for bank flow to include accepting stripe + telling them we take 15%

• use google maps for address in bank flow

• Properly handle permissions denial.

• facebook login + friends (stretch)

• SMS friends (stretch)

• research how people handle multiple scales

• Jordan

• Send out link to lots of people then send engagement (goal 25 by monday)

• engage QA girl (will be beta tester)

• Post to media (at least one for each account)

• Set up facebook business page

• clean chat pull

• research how people handle multiple scales

What did we learn? (Anything)

• Matt wants to just put stuff out there, even rough. Jordan wants it to be well designed. We need to learn from each other and meet at a perfect medium.
• We don't know enough about how to handle styles.
• react (but also not)
• merging styles

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10/3/16

• Have we done our best to acquire more sellers?

Jordan 5 - Adwords, no product yet. Matts 5 - Deeplinks, same

What did we accomplish since last meeting?

• Adwords + Google Tag Manager
• Prelaunch research -> should not be marketing, should focus on making sure the product was the right product
• Erlibird.com, betalist -> source of amazing feedback, Jordan has a call 10/3
• Learned lets not spend money on ads until we have a product, try free stuff like medium.
• 22 friends in a list.
• Jordan ramping on chat ui react native code
• Deeplinks to listing and friends

What did we miss and why?

• Email, Mission statement. just doing other stuff

What will we do before next meeting?

• Matt: Engagement Banner. Suggestions to implement:

• Should add bank account if listing.

• New follower.

• Listing from friend.

• Open messages. (stretch)

• Jordan

• 1.) Look in to fastlane/boarding for Test User Emails for easy signup

• 2.) Template to send follow up so we can get info on user experience and keep users engaged (Emails potentially)

• 3.) Pre-Launch checklist

• 4.) Continue learning React Native

• 5.) ErliBird phone call Tuesday and look in to Betalist.com for paid beta testers and feedback

• 6.) Finish Chat Views(?)

• 7.) Clerky legal documents

• 8.) Talk to brother about Techstars

What did we learn?

• simulator doesn't handle deeplinks, lots about marketing (pay for beta users), idea is solid facebook doing it, these questions added good structure to our discussions.