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What are some of the key things you've learned along the way? E.g. More community interaction helped grow the newsletter, etc. I would be curious to know what
by sixfoot3 9y ago
What are some of the key things you've learned along the way? E.g. More community interaction helped grow the newsletter, etc.
I would be curious to know what your roadmap for the "additional features." What are the advantages you've found "slamming together" the system vs. having a custom system built?
- owenwil 9y agoHey! Great questions, thanks! Well, so far: 1) Focus on the community, then the content. I thought the content would be some sort of mish-mash of opinion and really more long form stuff, but people prefer compact, quick takes, in 3-4 paragraphs. Makes sense, but hard to see as a maker! 2) Additional features is a great question! I plan a few different things: - Community integration with the newsletter - Integration with 'real-time chat services' like Discord, as I do think they serve a purpose - Web push for notifying of "big" news outside of the band of the slow newsletters for those that want it - Alternate delivery mechanisms for the newsletters (perhaps as simple, short FB Messenger pieces) - Calendar subscription for events in the industry - A bunch more I've forgotten already :). 3) Technically the system is custom built, I guess I'm referring to how it feels to have done that myself. I tried to hack it all together via existing stuff at first, but it was clearly not going to work, so I built a deep Craft CMS integration with my app to get where we are now. It's a great way to work because it's all built on top of relational content!