This week has mostly been a pain in the ass due to working on performance issues in Sofa. Luckily, I made good progress there and was able to keep iterating on the design changes too. Committing to Sofa 4.0 In last week's update, I openly wondered if
After two months of grinding on a ton of infrastructure work to enable "Smart Lists", this was the first week I was able to dive back into the fun stuff. The way "Smart Lists" work is forcing me to rethink some parts of the UI which
Remember a few weeks ago when I said I was just about wrapped up with the data model work? Well, lol, it took a little longer. After lots of fighting/cursing with iCloud, that work is now actually done and today I'm jumping back into finishing up Smart
During the holidays, I made good progress on Smart Lists in Sofa, but then ran into some tricky issues. I had to revamp Sofa’s data model a bit to get things working properly. This little detour took a decent amount of time, and I’m just about wrapped up
Cancel your New Year's plans because I just dropped a 45 min video recapping Sofa's 2023.I go over the state of the product, health of the business, quitting my job to go full-time, and talk about what's next for 2024. Thanks for a
Since working on custom categories and Ingredients, I’ve been thinking through the most useful first way to “expose” all those new features in @sofahq. I’ve settled on “Smart Lists” and I’ve just started working on it this past week. If you’re interested to see my progress
📺 New Video 📺 I learned a good bit from running a Black Friday sale for Sofa and I talk about what went well, the issues I ran into, and what I would do next time.
Soon you’ll be able to add anything into Sofa via a link. There are two reasons this makes sense for the product: 1. Sofa’s data sources don’t have everything and adding a book, video game, or music via a link is handy 2. People do more with
I’ve been thinking a lot about what to call “Custom Properties”. That name feels a little too technical to me. Here’s my working idea that I’d love some feedback on:“Enhancements” With these new properties, you can essentially create your own custom features in Sofa. They enhance
I want to share a little preview of something pretty cool I’ve been working on for Sofa. There’s still a good bit of refinement that I need to do, but I want to start getting feedback. The working title for this feature is called “Custom Properties” (I’m
Notes
Adding analytics to your app can seem like a simple and obvious thing to do, but once you get into it, it can be a little confusing.
In my video this week I share an easy framework I follow that makes analytics more useful. I also share some of the dangers of analytics and things you should be careful of.
2022 was Sofa's best year by every metric and the product has reached an important milestone in terms of usefulness.