In the process of building Novel Monkey I’ve been referring to many useful articles and resources.
For mostly my own benefit, I’ll list all of them in here as a handy resource.
It’s not much, and it’s kind of janky—everything is kind of janky, but I decided to throw up a temporary splash page. So there’s that!
Now all four of you following this dev blog, go forth to novelmonkey.com and boost my Google Analytics to the teens!
Ok, I’m the kind of person that wants to sit down, think about things, and make sure I design and build it right. It has to be just right, pixel perfect, and the code has to be clean, legible, and functional.
This is what I wrote from another post:
I kind of understand why they call it the grind now. You’re just doing a lot of work — you’re doing ALL the work, you barely feel like you know what you’re doing, there’s so much to do, you…
It’s been a month since I’ve posted. Lots have happened, and I wish even more have.
Of course, I could just blame “life” happening and “having no time,” but I did dedicate the last couple of months to working on this full-time, and I can’t say I’ve been using it as…
I’m absolutely terrible at marketing anything. I know it’s a lot of work, and that it’s absolutely critical for a product’s success. I’m also not very good at going about and drumming up excitement.
Well, it’s been what, a day? I feel every second I’m not working or thinking about this is wasted time. Like getting up at 5am to go running with my running group.
Or just being lazy.
To create the semblance of a brand, I just registered @thenovelmonkey on Twitter, and bought the domain http://novelmonkey.com. I just set up an email hello@novelmonkey.com for all correspondence.