Day 1

[nelsonic]

• [x] Setup your MacBook Pro
  • [x] Download and install the compoents of our Tech Stack: dwyl/technology-stack
• [x] Run through the relevant "learn-X" repos/tutorials on GitHub and
• [x] Open issues with questions and areas to improve them from the perspective of the first-time reader/learner.     The more we can streamline the new dev onboarding experience the better.     If you discover good learning resources for any part of the tech stack, share in issues!
• [x] Once the issues are open, create Pull Requests to implement the enhancements/improvemens.
• [x] Use the MVP App: https://github.com/dwyl/mvp/issues/140 and again, open any questions as issues!

[LuchoTurtle]

Closing this off since this was done on day one.

[nelsonic]

Almost ... the "Use the MVP App" was only done briefly ...

https://mvp.fly.dev/stats

"Use the MVP App" doesn't mean use a few times and then forget about it. 25 items and 36 timers is certainly a not zero. 👌 But in 6 months (125 business days) of working with/for @dwyl : https://www.timeanddate.com/date/workdays.html?d1=10&m1=10&y1=2022&d2=6&m2=4&y2=2023&ti=on

it's 0.2 items per day. or a better way to view it: the MVP App has been used less than once per week. To build a successful App we all need to use the "crappy" MVP regularly and feel the pain of it not having the features that we need it to have. so that we can be motivated to add them.

This is "dogfooding" 101: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food It's not "enough" to use it once or even a couple of times. If you are paid to develop an App and you don't use it, it shows that you aren't bothered with the success of the project. It's really that simple.

I'm not saying/writing this to "pick on you". Just to help you in your future projects. If the people on your team don't care enough about the success of the project to actually use the product and give regular feedback and ask questions to improve it, then you don't have any hope of success.

Read "The Lean Startup" and "Good To Great". Or ask ChatGPT to give you the summary if you're too busy. (obvs joking it will totally miss the point!) You have time to read. You're in your 20's and have no commitments (kids!!)