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Replace Your Product Roadmap
A product roadmap is a list of tasks and mile stones. It's generally built with a destination in mind. The destination isn't always clear and more importantly why it's the destination isn't clear.
Do More With Less Developers
Creating a highly effective development team requires a number of things. Over the years and working on different teams, here's what I've found works.
Rails Turbo Broadcast Update to Partial
How to send page updates with Hotwire using a specific partial.
From No-code to Code - How CommandWP Came To Be
Around 2014 I was doing a lot of consulting work. One client was creating WordPress sites and would contact me looking for help installing plugins or to fix a site that had been hacked with mal-ware.
They had a handful of sites they were working on and it was clear they had two common problems. No one was updating the code and there were no backups to be found!
Bet - PPC Campaign
Running a local PPC campaign will gain 2+ users. Assuming an LTV of $540/year, a $500 CPA, while high is a workable to optimize.
Bet - Locally focused site
Update site to a cleaner look and content focused on local hosting to Denver / Colorado will help increase conversions on the site.
Bet - Brick and Mortar
Experiments are good, bets are better?
I think most people would agree the best way to learn is through experiments, some might say the "hard way", but I'm starting to believe it's actually the only way.
Experiments produce experience and that's where the value comes from. I've spent way too much time reading how to do something but I don't feel like I've actually learned how to do something until actually doing it.
Bet - Early adopter program
Early adopter program will validate the market for CommandWP.
Watch a process using Turbo streams
After upgrading to Hotwire, I wanted to try out Turbo Streams. In CloudSh there is a background job that runs a Golang application to index sites. That seemed like a cool thing to use Turbo Streams so I can see the console output.
Turbo Streams just work. The basic flow is capture the process output in the background job, broadcast it to the UI, and follow along by scolling as new data comes in.
Snips
Workarea is an enterprise-grade Ruby on Rails commerce platform.
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This is awesome! ML gems for ruby! Just need a project to use them on! Nice work @andrewkane!
Testing snips and brid.gy some more alsdjf