Dev Diary - Episode 1
Aron Schüler Published
This week was a good week for my sideprojects.
What I worked on
Shotmetrics AI
I started this week by trippling the price. It was $9.99/mo before and is now at $29.99/mo. I feel like all the insights are worth this. Compared to a lesson with a professional, you get so much more drills, visualiziation and data at your fingertips.
Although I get more and more traffic due to the blog I created over at https://shotmetrics-ai.com/blog/, I still have to get one person to purchase a subscription after their 14 days of trial.
It feels like the value is there, and I am using it too for tracking my Golf training.
I also received very positive feedback about the insights that AI is able to generate based on imported data. however, the people still don’t come back as much as I would want them too.
Maybe I need to integrate some kind of email tool. But they are all such a hassle.
Storygenie
For Storygenie, I finally got around to move all Firebase Firestore interactions to use vuefire. The bindings for authentication and for Firestore are just so much easier than maintaining pinia stores for everything.
The authentication checks are also a breeze, no more subscribing to authChanged events.
I also migrated the generation pipelines to use newer models and improved the prompts a bit by switching to few-shot prompts. It’s just very hard to find a universally agreed-on and great scrum item. How long should the user story be? How detailed should acceptance criteria be? All these are highly personal to a team. An onboarding guide, where you can configure these kind of preferences would be great.
In my team, my scrum master tends to use Storygenie whenever there is a project that starts and the Product Owner fails to write tickets in a detailed way. He just gives in whatever was planned during the User Story Mappings and then Storygenie generates something that is better, most of the times. For him, the tool is perfect for that.
I need to build more integrations, however. Before I rewrote the project with Vue, I had the Jira and Linear integrations running. Now, I need to get these going again and also add Gitlab. Doing all that with Cloud Functions is a bit of a hassle. I am considering to just move the backend to a VPS and run it with Deno or Bun or something.
I also just realize that I still need to build the Stripe integration there. With Shotmetrics and CronJS I have done this now two times, yet its still so many cloudfunctions. But I’ll probably just copy whatever I have done there and adapt response models a bit. The mapping of users and subscriptions works pretty well.
What’s next
Currently, I am reading “The 1-Page Marketing Plan” from Allan Dib. A good read so far, with mostly things I already kinda had in my mind, but not thought-through in the way he describes it. I’ve also found myself in various of the “How not to do it” scenarios, e.g. spending less than $1000/mo in Google Ads.
I want to get a marketing plan going for Shotmetrics and Storygenie and just refine my target groups a bit. Having a more specific user group will probably help me reorder internal ideas and todos for each of those projects.
With this, I am also done for today. These are all the thoughts in my mind at the moment. Thanks for reading!