Building 12 Features In 3 Months

Partially inspired by Pieter Levels’ 12 Startups in 12 Months, I’ll be building 12 sizable features for Cloud Campaign in just 3 months.

I know what you’re saying, “Pieter aspired to to build a startup every month, why is 4 features a month significant?”

I’m the solo-founder of Cloud Campaign, and accordingly I handle marketing, sales, support, product development, customer success, etc…, so on average I only have 2 days a week dedicated to product development.

Two days to build an entirely new feature.

My weekly task list consist of writing at least 2 blog posts, sending 20 cold emails, designing and building 1 new feature, redesign 1 part of the web app to improve user experience, and drafting & sending the weekly newsletter.

My Weekly Task Tracker

Click here to view my actual weekly task list or copy it to make your own.

So why one new feature every week?

The core product is built and functioning well, but I strongly believe no product is ever done. By continuing to iterate on the product and add additional functionality, I hope to design a product that is both intuitive to use and extremely powerful.

We’re already 3 weeks into the new year and thus, I’ve added 3 new features.

Week 1: Export Functionality

Cloud Campaign — Analytics Reports

The ability to export both analytics and upcoming social media posts as CSV files for either manipulation in other software or sharing with clients.

Press Release

Week 2: Auto-Importer

Cloud Campaign — Article Auto-Importer

Remembering to share new blog posts to social media can be a huge pain. It’s repetitive and relatively thoughtless work.

The new auto-importer will automatically grab new articles from any RSS feed and fill your content library, so you can either share the article to social media with a single click or schedule it to be published at a future date.

Press Release

Week 3: Post Failure Alerts

Cloud Campaign — Native Alerts

On rare occasions, posting to social media might fail (credentials changed, the API recipient is down, servers are overloaded). With the new alerts and retry logic, you’ll receive an alert anytime a post fails. Simply click the alert to retry posting the content to social media.

Press Release

Week 4: Coming soon…

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