#5 - Burnt waffles, Ed Sheeran, Shrinking, The Recruit, User Interface, Birthday, Development Sprints and everything that happened last week!
This week's waffle got burnt a little. Had to re-cook!
Welcome to the #5 of Wednesday Waffles! A lot happened over the last couple of weeks and I’ve just not been able to write to you all! Sorry about that!
If this is your first time here, Hello! I’m Tejas and I write this newsletter that is delivered to you every Wednesday (I try!) on things that I did and worked on the last week! Think of this, as sort of an unstructured thought dump that will almost always make sense.
If you have been reading the editions so far, you would be curious to know which way I went with my decision on Civil Services vs. Fanpit. I picked Fanpit.
Why? Well, it just felt right and I was obsessed with everything Fanpit! So I took the leap of faith and here we are!
On that note, last week was all about more development, UI/UX refinements, branding, merchandise making and we may even sign up another client for our early deployments!
More on this in next week’s waffle!
Other than that, it was my birthday on 30th! Spent the day doing responsible stuff. Too personal to talk about here, but did manage to get time to go to an amazing dinner at Chap Chay and tried out their unlimited stir fry buffet. The folks there are super cute and even got me a cake!
Speaking of cakes, Shreya surprised me with a super cool, yummy cake that she had baked at 12 AM. Ate it almost entirely on my own. Was absolutely worth it.
Oh and! I GOT TO SEE ED SHEERAN PERFORM LIVE IN CHENNAI! OMG! OMG! I WAS SO CLOSE TO HIM AND WE MADE POSTERS AND FRIENDSHIP BANDS AND AARFGAGAAGGAGAGH!!!
Anyway, here we are now!
Weekly two cents - Please work on UI/UX!
It doesn’t matter if you are B2B or B2C, good user interface and user experience go a long way. It gives a lot of clarity and helps to make sense of all the chaos!
Good UI/UX means significantly lesser barriers to adoption / conversion and saves a lot of time on training and knowledge sharing! This doesn’t mean the underlying isn’t important. No.
Proverbs like “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover” exist for a reason. And no matter how much we do try, we are more likely to pick a book with a good cover, than one without. The same works here too. Your product is picked because of its cover, but continues to be used because of its story. You have to work on both!
We also got around to talking about API Integrations!
I realised this very early. Our platform, no matter how many features we add, will have to have a lot of automation built into it. This reduces errors and also makes it easier for operational teams to actually use our platform more!
Enter, the API! For those of you who do not know - here is what APIs are all about! Simply put, APIs enable different applications / programs to talk to each other and agree to exchange information in required formats. APIs form the underlying for most integrations and they really are a godsend!
We’ve started talking to different partners with whom we could agree to exchange information to enable processing of transactions on our platform. More on this in the next editions to come!
Oh and Fanpit now has a LinkedIn page!
And yes, I did update my work history too! No longer in stealth! Time to take Fanpit to the world!
I wanted to launch Fanpit and tell the world about it at Ed Sheeran’s concert. So I designed a t-shirt to wear to the concert with a QR code that when you scanned, redirected to www.fanpit.live/legohouse. I did not wear the shirt, but hey! Welcome to Fanpit! Check out the URL now and sign up! We are just getting started!
Also, we are hiring for multiple roles and we are looking to build a super cool team! If you think you have skills and will pass the vibe check, or know someone who will, apply at www.fanpit.live/joinus! If we find your application amazing, we are very happy to go back and find out where we can fit you into our budgets!
Oh and we love interns too! All you need to do is fill the form!
Entity incorporation is hard. There are way too many forms to fill and I just don’t like doing it!
Also, I now need to take a lot of decisions on all things Fanpit.
For starters, are we even going to continue to be Fanpit? Or Fanpyt? Where are we going to host our web app? Should we really get sucked into the big 4 or should we host with a start-up? Also, who is going to run our emails? Microsoft? Zoho? What CRM do I get? Do I get only the CRM or everything? Or do we just build everything in-house? If you have any inputs on any of these things, or anything at all, please write to me!
I now understand why Microsoft surveyed people if we would recommend Windows as an operating system. They knew what adulting was all about.
I finished watching the new season of Shrinking
It’s not very often that I have no words to describe something. Shrinking got me here. It is an absolutely hilarious and wholesome show that is definitely stands for it’s 8.1 rating on IMDB!
So good to see Jason Segel and Harrison Ford on the same screen and the dynamic they share!
Saving the best for the last - Ed Sheeran
Anyone who knows me, knows how big of a “Sheerio” I am. I mean, Ed has been my top artist for six years straight. I have a wall with posters of all his albums, something I paid way more than I should have.
I got to see him. I got to see him smile at a poster we held. I got to see him rock the stage. I got to see him do so well - so effortlessly, in the city I love!
What would you like to read more about? Should I talk more about building Fanpit? Do I build more publicly? Tell you about interesting things I study about(if I do
Drop me a note - tell me what clicks, what doesn't - I'm all ears!
You can reach me at tejas@fanpit.live or wherever you usually find me hanging around!
Cheers!
TPS