Sprint #4

This is what I built

WikiEverything - A Wikipedia search portal

And

Funneler - A KPI tracker

The Journey

So last week I realized that I am pretty bad at front end stuff with Bootstrap and overall design, and I feel like the only way to get better at that is repetition and constant practice so that is what I have done this week and will probably be doing in the next few weeks.

I did the Wikipedia viewer to mainly nail down my mobile-friendly Bootstrap skills and make sure that I still understood API integration. It only took me an afternoon so I feel like I’ve got a solid yet very primitive understanding of those concepts.

My second project, Funnelr is actually something I built for my personal use. So by day I am a Junior Sales guy at Weave and by night a young padawan codeslinger. Weave uses Salesforce to keep track of our metrics and stuff but i don't really have instant access to all of my personal metrics and I don't have the opportunity to track my own custom metrics. Anyways that's why I decided to make a KPI tracker app as my next project and so Funnelr was born.

I got to practice story-boarding out the user experience for my app which I want to learn more about. I feel like I still rushed through it just to start coding.

I’m going to use this project as a playground for the next couple of weeks to keep learning more. I want to build a backend for this or use Firebase to add data permance so that a user can track their progress over time. Also the app is growing in complexity and I wonder if it would be a good time to use a front end framework to handle all of that complexity. These are the things ill be looking at for the next weeks sprint. Its going to be a lot of fun. I think I might also get some of my coworkers to try using Funnelr to see what feedback I can get.

Wish me luck!