This is part of a series about my side project Bashfully, which aims to give graduates and other new entrants to careers a seasoned professional level way of expressing themselves through the super power of story telling. Following the core principles of being discoverable, personalised and guiding in approach. New short term goal One…

This is part of a series about my side project Bashfully, which aims to give graduates and other new entrants to careers a seasoned professional level way of expressing themselves through the super power of story telling. Following the core principles of being discoverable, personalised and guiding in approach. Following…

This is part of a series about my side project Bashfully, which aims to give graduates and other new entrants to careers a seasoned professional level way of expressing themselves through the super power of story telling. Following the core principles of being discoverable, personalised and guiding in approach. …

It has been a bit of a voyage into the unexpected in looking at SEO this month. For my side project Bashfully, which is to create an online profile for people early in their careers that has three guiding principles. That it should be: Discoverable — people need to be…

I was going to write about SEO and Bashfully, but is usual on software projects other things cropped up. In tandem with my day job I have mainly been thinking about maintaining delivery momentum.One of the downsides of small projects teams is the lack of capacity and time. However, the…

Getting the correct tools in place for any initiative is important. For any product concentrating the core functionality is also key. Anything that isn’t a core function should come off the shelf. Very few circumstances are that specialised to need to roll your own. The number one example of this…

Inspired by this tweet I have decided to do a follow up to what I have learned in 2017, with what I have “unlearned” I really like this idea, as looking back I suspect most of the time I’ve truly learned something I’ve been able to let go. In…

Having a pre-release landing page Having a baseline twitter campaign Using the above to get a baseline conversion ratio The Twitter campaign had a segment list, budget, and set of content we could re-run. …

So deciding to “go live” shouldn’t be a difficult decision … in fact getting people interested enough to use an early stage project is hard enough! This is the latest instalment talking about going through the MVP process with Bashfully — my side project that hosts online profiles…