Morning Mood: The Edge of Panic and Progress
Woke up with a weird mix of dread and clarity. The product technically works, but a minor layout bug on Safari feels like it could tank the entire user experience. Found myself googling “CSS flexbox Safari bug behavior” before I even made coffee. Classic founder breakfast.
Fixes & Feedback Loops
Spent most of the morning neck-deep in front-end tweaks — mostly Safari and mobile responsiveness. I cannot believe how differently Safari handles basic spacing. Didn’t touch the actual core logic of the app today — this was all polish. But it matters. Users don’t say “your CSS is broken,” they just bounce.
Once those fixes shipped, I moved on to interview notes. Started mapping what early users are actually trying to do when they log in — not just what I thought they wanted. Little mismatch that’s adding friction: people can't immediately spot our most useful feature. Might need a homepage rethink.
“It’s working, but I don’t know why I’d use it over [Competitor].”
– One brutally honest but very helpful user
Feels painful to hear, but that quote was worth its weight in gold. Immediate ticket: make our differentiator painfully obvious as soon as they land.
Analytics: Baby’s First Event Tracking
Got basic event tracking implemented across onboarding and feature engagement. It’s not fancy, but it’ll show:
- Where users drop off
- What they’re actually clicking
- Who even makes it to the “aha” moment (if they do…)
Fired off the first test user flow and already saw where people are getting lost. Once we collect some real volume, this will reshape our roadmap.
Surprise Investor Call
A VC pinged about a chat — not a formal pitch, more like a “what are you working on and why should I care?” sort of vibe. Talked through the vision, early traction, and my angry relationship with mobile breakpoints. No slides, just vibes. I think it went… okay?
Learned: I need to stop apologizing for how early we are. Investors are used to squinting into the future. If we don’t act like we’re building something big, why should anyone else?
Competitor Raises Round 😬
Saw on TechCrunch that one of our competitors just closed a seed round. Cue the mental spiral: are they faster? Better? More polished? Maybe. But I spent an hour analyzing their pitch and realized something surprisingly encouraging — we’re different in ways that matter. Just need to say it louder.
Today's How-To: Set Up Dead-Simple Event Tracking in Your MVP (Even If You're Not Ready)
- Pick 3 user actions that show value (log in ✅, use key feature ✅, invite teammate ✅).
- Add basic callouts using something like
window.analytics.track(...). - Pipe it into Mixpanel or PostHog — keep the dashboard minimal.
- Don’t aim for perfection. Just answer: Are they using what I think they’re using?
The real point isn’t the fancy graphs — it’s taking that first step to make decisions based on data instead of gut.
Tomorrow’s about decisions: Keep polishing, or lean into new feature visibility? Don’t want to stall, but don’t want to pile new layers onto a confusing base either. Productivity was high today, but it’s a weird kind of progress — important but invisible. That’s okay for now.
Back to it.
