Decided to reverse my long-time TODO list and start from the bottom because I realised I'd never get there otherwise. It feels so good so I advise everyone to go and do the same.
For me it looks like this, I'm working on a bootstrapped simple SaaS tool for devops (docker container monitoring):
- Clojure so I'm learning FP and Lisp
- Clojurescript/Reagent so I'm learning SPA/react
- MongoDB so I'm learning NoSQL
- Vim so I'm learning editing like a boss
- SaaS so I'm learning marketing (SEO/Blogging to start with)
Not as bad as it seems. You can ignore the first two for now and fix the "0 traffic". How are you marketing it? Maybe try some SEO, paid ads, speak at a conference. Maybe convince some friends to get their companies to buy a license. $49/m is reasonable.
If I get it correctly this is a more sophisticated pingdom? Definitely a need for that I'm sure?
I see that it's trending but without any comments - so allow me a shameless plug, I created a tool to monitor my APIs (can schedule calls, do response content checks, send alerts etc): http://www.apilope.com
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I'd say for starters, Scrum because it gives you a framework. After you get used to the Agile methods, just tailor it or switch to Kanban.
I jumped on the Scrum bandwagon in 2008. It was refreshing after so many years of waterfall! I have introduced it in 3-5 companies during the years, but sometimes it just feels rather restricting (after you get used to it) in recent years we started leaning towards Kanban-style, but we are still using methods like planning poker, checking velocity, and doing standups. And of course if you're not remote, you still need a taskboard - shameless plug, we're selling reusable storycards for this!
That's an awesome service: the landing page works just perfect in conveying what it is. I would suggest (my 2 cents) try to focus on marketing to get the tool out there instead!
