Alan Craig

Co-founder building tech that helps teams achieve optimal states of flow; Agile Lead; Product enthusiast.

[Alan Craig @AlanCraig_]

Who on earth gets away with saying a problem is fixed with out verifying that it’s fixed?

- NBN

You are the worst and I can’t complain to a sole!!!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬

[Alan Craig @AlanCraig_]

Fantastic business model you have @NBN_Australia. Technicians are not contactable by consumers but by the ISP. When your staff are INCOMPETENT they have zero lash back. Bravo 👏 this is absolutely the WORST SERVICE ON EARTH 🤬

[Alan Craig @AlanCraig_]

Day 2. Technician booked for the morning slot again.

Apparently they arrived, didn’t knock on the door and “fixed” the issue.

I still have no internet coming to my property.

I was only swapping NBN providers on a HFC connection.

[Alan Craig @AlanCraig_]

@Ana_An_Maria thank you so much for mentioning Yand on Product Hunt 🙏 Can we connect? I'd love to see if I can offer some value to you in some way.

[Alan Craig @AlanCraig_]

@Luke_OBrien @lennysan Thanks for the mention @Luke_OBrien

Chat, collaborate and innovate with Yand. We’re going places with customer feedback so hop on board if you want to help shape a task management app focussed on simplicity and collaboration 😊

[Alan Craig @AlanCraig_]

Interesting, everyone selling that they are LinkedIn growth hackers, or LinkedIn marketing experts are capturing my attention on Facebook.

There is no doubt that LinkedIn is a great medium for business but LinkedIn experts appear to gain a better ROI on Facebook 🤔

[Alan Craig @AlanCraig_]

Yesterday, I created a video to spread the word about https://t.co/x92zXBgA4q but my co-founders told me it sucked!

Feedback:
* Trying too hard
* Intro style didn't work
* Something was weird in the delivery

Have yr team got yr back? Or are you surrounded by yes ppl? #startup

[Alan Craig @AlanCraig_]

Thanks for the retweet 🙏

[Alan Craig @AlanCraig_]

Just like that, https://t.co/LYxJitWQEG became a thing 🙂

From humble beginnings we're focussing on organic reach (especially since Yand is free). If anyone feels like helping a #startup make some noise on launch day, please help spread the news.

Chapter one of Yand is here 🚀

[Alan Craig @AlanCraig_]

My first Medium article and really nothing but the back story to https://t.co/LYxJitWQEG which we launch today 🤞

“Do we need yet another task management app?” by Alan Craig
https://t.co/fZyHLIoNI9

#startup #LeanStartup #productivity

[Alan Craig @AlanCraig_]

Prep for launch #4 🚀

Last couple of days: “complete” feature added to final column of Kanban; comms are at the ready

Tomorrow - launch day:
1. Launch website
2. Send out comms to early adopters
3. Lots more comms
4. Update socials

Putting ourselves out there 😊😬😅🤢🤮

[Alan Craig @AlanCraig_]

Getting ready for launch 🚀

Yesterday; polish on boarding user flow by with better emails & feature hints when loading the app

Today:
1. Complete LinkedIn company page
2. Polish first 2 blog posts
3. Look into Product Hunt

Has anyone used Product Hunt & found it useful?

[Alan Craig @AlanCraig_]

Prep for launch #3 🚀

Yesterday: Hit a snag try to launch the site on Safari. Final defects resolved.

Today/this weekend:
1. Add a *complete* button to the final column of the Kanban to clear released items
2. Communicate to beta testers about the public launch next week 😊🎉

[Alan Craig @AlanCraig_]

No truer statement has ever been said. Building products follow a fluid cycle, ideas mature, technology progresses and people change. Produce requirements just in time to save wasting time ☝️

[Allen Holub. https://linkedIn.com/in/allenholub @allenholub]

I’ve never seen anything good come from capturing requirements accurately and early. It’s a recipe for building the wrong thing.

[Alan Craig @AlanCraig_]

I love this visual!

[Alan Craig @AlanCraig_]

@matimage Thanks mate, slow burn with the baby though. Things are taking twice as long but we’re days away now 😊

[Alan Craig @AlanCraig_]

Today’s hack; if you don’t have someone to build HTML email templates for your user setup, account setup, forgot password etc emails, create them in Mailchimp, export the HTML and pass it on you your engineer 👨‍💻

[Alan Craig @AlanCraig_]

It seems is forgotten how much sleep you lose when you have a newborn baby!

We’re getting the Yand company launch back on track. Today’s goals; update on boarding collateral and get the site ready for launch 🚀