's update for the week ending on Friday, May 3, 2019

mtlynch.io

What Got Done App

  • Added user login/registration
    • Shout out to UserKit for making it easy. Went from zero knowledge of UserKit to complete integration in ~3 hours total dev time.
  • Applied a bootstrap theme (Superhero)
  • Fixed the entry submission page to auto-populate the date for the user

New Project Research

  • Visited a stone quarry
    • Owner wasn’t there, left a gift, will call back next week.
  • Cold called another stone quarry
    • They seemed confused about how I want to work with them
  • Sent cold emails to three copywriters
    • Two agreed to a discussion, other has not yet responded
  • freeCodeCamp responded with a “no”

Zestful

  • Received payment of $123.85 in revenue from API usage
  • Reached out to two users who were using the legacy NYT ingredient-phrase-tagger repo
  • Started migrating to Python3

Is It Keto

  • After a month of doing nothing to the site, everything is up
    • Revenues are at $82 (2x from March)
    • Sessions are at 8,851 (74% increase from March)

Beekeeping

  • Picked up my bees!
  • Installed bees in their hives
  • Fed them sugar syrup
  • Released the queens from their cages
  • Ordered extra gloves and additional hive boxes

Dusty VCR

  • Bought equipment so we can record using our own stuff
  • Scheduled a guest for episode 5
  • Reached out to potential guest for episode 6 (no response yet)

Misc

  • Resolved long, drawn out dispute with NYS over 2017 tax returns
  • Completed bookkeeping for March with Bench