Week 18 - The Startup Cup, Founders Meetup and Payments
So last week we launched Cups and Tournaments, released the second edition of our newsletter and started work on our biggest challenge of 'em all (yet) - payments.
We've received some great feedback on the tournaments feature - some praise and some great feedback on what we can do to improve it - some of which already have been rolled into our product. This reinforces the notion we have which is do not build in vacuum - get the Minimum Viable Product out and iterate rapidly. Some of the best lessons we've learnt so far have come from things pointed out by our users and it does make the both of us focused on fixing the right problems.
Andy's also rolled in some optimizations to the frontend as well as some fixes to rendering issues on the iPad, with more on the way.
The Startup Cup We also latched on to an interesting marketing opportunity - we reached out to the organisers of the inaugural Startup Cup (through Hacker News) being held in San Francisco on the 15th of August this year. They're supporting a charity called 'charity: water' and if you'd like to donate you can too. Some of the hottest startups that we know and love such as Slide, Disqus, Revision3, Xobni, Yammer, WePay, Weebly and many more are taking part. What's great is that the organisers of The Startup Cup are using Gameplan to organise the tournament and we can't be happier to help out. Do watch out for the final results of what promises to be an exciting tournament.
More Hustling We also took the opportunity to speak to a few of the Halls of Residence at the National University of Singapore. While the academic year hasn't begun and the people I met were still busy with orientation - it was great to touch base with my alma mater and let the various sports committees know of our existence and help make their lives easier when it comes to organising sport on-campus.
The Founders Meetup Wednesday was also the inaugural Founders Meetup organised by e27 and it was great to catch up with old friends as well as meet some new ones. I do believe we are at the cusp of something of a mini-revolution in Singapore in terms of startups breaking the stranglehold of banks and other financial institutions as a career option for younger folk, and both Andy and I are proud to be part of a great ecosystem which is definitely on the ascendancy.
Payments Andy and I have battling for the rest of the week with our payment system and we're making steady progress with it. We are aiming to get it sorted out as soon as we can, and begin hardcore testing, before we roll out paid-plans in the very near future.
Can't Wait.
Stats 4 issues closed on GitHub, no new features added (but a lot of 'em are in our staging environment and not merged to master yet). 4,814 lines of code and 11,299 lines of test code with a code-to-test ratio of 1:2.3 (again - plenty of code is waiting to be merged into master).
