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A squash and a tomato come together to create the ultimate grocery shopping application. Ever.

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Chris Johnson in The Squash and the Tomato

Nov 7, 2017

Deciding on your next feature

How to decide what to build next

When we launch something, we only ship the bare necessities. We don’t build out a whole spanking, mind blowing feature set. We don’t build a shiny, ego-bloating load of a shit we assume our users…

Chris Johnson in The Squash and the Tomato

Nov 4, 2017

What to focus on when bootstrapping an application

On November 1st, I launched Squash Tomato. It was my first product launch. Hell, it was my first product! But, even being my first product and my first launch, I’ve learned so much about what’s really important to focus on. Here’s what I…

Chris Johnson in The Squash and the Tomato

Oct 30, 2017

Squash Tomato Journal — Oct. 30, 2017–23:45

Debugged why the new google analytics global tag script wasn’t working — turns out, it’s just buggy. I switched to another tracking method, analytics.js, and it works perfectly!
Added a countdown timer to Nov. 1st at noon.

Chris Johnson in The Squash and the Tomato

Oct 26, 2017

Squash Tomato Journal — Oct. 25, 2017–04:00

Added npm package, mongoose-double, to mongoose User schema to allow Doubles (floats). Although MongoDB allows, mongoose doesn’t allow floats in a field type: Number.
Total is now calculating and displaying correctly thanks to…

Chris Johnson in The Squash and the Tomato

Oct 24, 2017

Squash Tomato Journal — Oct. 24, 2017–00:24

Redesigned the user register flow.
Tested the new register flow on a 75year old lady, 2 Gen Xers, 3 Millennials, and 2 Baby Boomers.
Strongly considered rewriting all pug functionality in Vue — decided…

Chris Johnson in The Squash and the Tomato

Oct 24, 2017

The squash and the tomato

Welcome to the story of a squash and a tomato, or Squash Tomato (I couldn’t get squashedtomato.com 😆 ).

You could consider this a journal, scientific paper 😂 , or the story of building my first product. You’ll find confusing and coffee-driven posts on my…

Chris Johnson in The Squash and the Tomato

Oct 23, 2017

Squash Tomato Journal — Oct. 23, 2017 —23:30

Fucking forgot to change my port over from 7777 to 80 when I transferred a test to my droplet… spent 2 hours “diagnosing” (yelling at my computer) the issue until I happened to accidentally open my environment variables.

Chris Johnson in The Squash and the Tomato

Oct 23, 2017

Squash Tomato Journal — October 22, 2017–00:04

Read chapter 2 & 3 (build and launch) of Pieter Levels MAKE book.
Updated Squash Tomato’s user schema to accept a list (array).
Added add and clear functionality to the user’s list (still have…