William Burden

building the future of communication & speaking practice

[William Burden @williamburden_]

The fear of public speaking ranks higher than almost any other, and yet communication is the one skill that defines how far we go.

Communication isn’t a talent. It’s a skill and now it’s coachable.

Elqo is live.

https://t.co/FOV3moGqNT

[William Burden @williamburden_]

@BacLeodiv All these people saying “just speak more” have no clue what they’re saying

Speaking is a skill, and we’ve broken it down into structured learning that provides real feedback instead of ‘watching yourself back’ or ‘speaking into a mirror’

AND it’s free 👉 https://t.co/FOV3moGqNT

[William Burden @williamburden_]

@utkarshbuilds_ Real

Social media has ruined our views of everything

[William Burden @williamburden_]

@styleschelss Appreciate you man! That’s awesome to hear.

I’m here for any future feedback or questions you have, excited to see your communication excel 🤝

[William Burden @williamburden_]

Moving to countries alone, twice, has taught me this: learning how to talk to people is a superpower

If you can’t speak clearly...you’ll lose.

That’s why I’m building Elqo.

So you don’t get left behind.

Try it now, it's free → https://t.co/FOV3moGqNT

[William Burden @williamburden_]

@styleschelss Yessir brother. Have you tried it out?

[William Burden @williamburden_]

try elqo here, for free👇
https://t.co/FOV3moGqNT

[William Burden @williamburden_]

day 57 of building Elqo in public: your personal communication coach for interviews, pitches & more

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[William Burden @williamburden_]

day 56 of building Elqo in public: your personal communication coach for interviews, pitches & more

i want to just leave this here. NOT to gloat.

in december, i was embarrassed when asked how many users we have...because we only had 180.

i've put everything i have into this.

[William Burden @williamburden_]

day 49 of building Elqo in public: your personal communication coach for interviews, coffee chats & more

implemented a one-time offer for annual plan if users want to stay on free tier upon onboarding

hopefully will see a slight surge in paying users 🙃

[William Burden @williamburden_]

day 45 & 46 of building Elqo in public: your personal communication coach for interviews, coffee chats & more

still thinking of the best ways to get more clicks on the custom session feature, as this is our standout feature for paid users

[William Burden @williamburden_]

day 44 of building Elqo in public: your personal communication coach for interviews, coffee chats & more

refining one of my prouder features: the custom lesson

issue is, lots of users don’t even know what it is

will be placing more CTAs to it throughout the entire app

[William Burden @williamburden_]

day 43 & 43 of building Elqo in public: your personal communication coach for interviews, coffee chats & more

stayed up all last night fixing the most annoying merge request issue

fixed the deploy script on staging, and edited Nginx + stability on production

[William Burden @williamburden_]

day 41 & 42 of building Elqo in public: your personal communication coach for interviews, coffee chats & more

implemented steak freezes to help people maintain their streak if they miss a day

users have to reach consecutive 7 day streaks to gain a freeze

cap for free users

[William Burden @williamburden_]

@simonecanciello already out there and live bro!

https://t.co/FOV3moGqNT

[William Burden @williamburden_]

day 40 of building Elqo in public: your personal communication coach for interviews, coffee chats & more

switched from whisper to @soniox_ai for speech-to-text transcription

soooo goated

[William Burden @williamburden_]

day 38 & 39 of building Elqo in public: your personal communication coach for interviews, coffee chats & more

hosted a webinar with a partner and learnt so many new things

implemented a countdown timer after the user clicks record, giving them time to prepare & breathe

[William Burden @williamburden_]

day 37 of building Elqo in public: your personal communication coach for interviews, coffee chats & more

bunch of user interviews today

learnt deeper about what’s working and what’s not

also spent the evening taking a break!

a bit burnt out recently

[William Burden @williamburden_]

day 36 of building Elqo in public: your personal communication coach for interviews, coffee chats & more

just saw this buried comment in the feedback forum

seriously makes all this hard work worth it

[William Burden @williamburden_]

day 34 & 35 of building Elqo in public: your personal communication coach for interviews, coffee chats & more

shipped a new feature in the custom lessons that can automatically fill in fields with past sessions

also adding ways to make feedback more personalized - any advice?

[William Burden @williamburden_]

day 34 of building Elqo in public: your personal communication coach for interviews, coffee chats & more

wow, this has been the biggest day for Elqo so far, in terms of signups

almost 100 overnight, all because of a semi viral tiktok (75k views)

distribution is the moat❗️

[William Burden @williamburden_]

day 33 of building Elqo in public: your personal communication coach for interviews, coffee chats & more

been improving the progress tracking for users, also cleaning up the UI to make it clearer

now they get deeper insights into specific trends

opinions and/or advice?