UserNotes:progrium
Sent an email to about 60 people that signed up for the announce list. More people are trickling into Slack. We migrated to the Dune cluster so there shouldn't be issues with AWS host roles getting applied to people's AWS commands.
Just about everybody that submitted the Google Form for access has been "mapped". That is, in Slack I list GitHub users and ask those in the channel to react to their username. This shows engagement and readiness, and also makes it easier for us to know who's who in the channel. So then I invite them to the GitHub Team that has access to the wiki/repo. This team is used to determine actual access by the app, so at this point they can use it. I DM them instructions on how to get started, pointing them to the wiki.
A few people haven't reacted to their username. I'd like to try and get everybody in that's requested access before moving on to inviting more.
Not having a web component yet has made this process interesting. It sort of forces a low tech, hands on approach.
Last week I gave an impromptu demo of cmd.io at a local meetup. Just to put the idea out there. I didn't do a great job at collecting interest. I'll be giving a real demo this Friday at a single track conference. I should at least funnel interest to the mailing list.
Today we opened it up to about 10 people. As expected, found some great bugs and holes in our observability tooling. With such a small group and all of them in Slack, it makes it easy to address each issue as they come, in near real-time working with users.
UserNotes has already been really great. Users have their own space to make notes for themselves, note feedback on the experience, etc that we can later turn into actionable items. Also gives a sense of how they're thinking about using it, what they're trying. It's still early and we get a lot from the Slack channel too. But so far I'm loving this UserNotes idea.