The episode, in writing
by Richard Lovatt · from the episode above, checked against what was said
We've added some new functions. I'm kind of addicted to this process, but I feel at least I'm at a point now where I can stop adding functions and just document, and obviously start to get customers, get trial people, start using the tech and see how we do.
The first thing I want to show you is ask the archive. Before, I had a version of this where it would remember your pushes and whatever you've connected in terms of context, but not far back, and you couldn't search. What I figured was, imagine I got so much done a few days ago and I went to bed and thought I'll do an episode about X tomorrow, but there was other stuff that really deserved an episode as well, or deserved me to speak about it and show, and I didn't quite get around to it, and then I kind of forgot. So I was like, we need a mechanism where it remembers all of this and we can also look up things.
You can simply click ask. You can say what did we get done yesterday, or when did I implement 11 labs. This is going to show buggy and be super slow because I haven't even tested this out. It's already too slow and this is a bug, but you can see it's valuable, right. So awkward, but these are the things you've got to document because I'm going to fix this. The whole point is I can remember these times. I might be speaking to someone and they might ask, when did you enact that data policy, these boring terms, and I can just go into here and ask it, and look, back on this time, here was my thought process around it and here's why I did it. So that's that, even though that was kind of a failure, which is embarrassing.
I've added some more connections. Because there's so many now, I've put them in topics, I guess, for what shipped, where episodes go. So now we've got LinkedIn, they take ages to load, YouTube, LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram. I'll be honest, the application to get those across the line, especially TikTok, which I haven't finished making live for all users, the others I have, I think. The complexity of the application that meta makes, it's so long it literally gave me anxiety having to complete it, and for me, when I start something, I have to complete it. So I was at it for so many hours. But now it's honestly great, because it's one button click and it posts to these platforms with the text accompanying it, which is really cool.
I think I added these two new ones, your email newsletter, and track milestones. So another milestone would be like you sent out, because people have their email newsletters, and they send that out to people, they get subscribers through that. So these are milestones as well, it might be you've sent out your first email newsletter, you've got your first subscriber. These are going to be tracked, and right now it connects to Kit and Beehive.
I also added this, what will you send. Everyone who signs up to Underway gets an Underway email account, but it's also not. This is my inbox, I can copy it. The reason I thought about this was because I'm trying to think about all these connections, and email's a good connection, but there's so many, depends on your email and you've got so many different things coming through. I looked into the legalities and how to connect to Gmail and Workspace, and it's like you need an application, you have to pay a lot of money, and it's annually, and I was like, okay, that's not really going to work now. But I think this is a good step in between, and what it does is gives you this personal inbox from Underway, and every time you get important emails that are important to this project, or something you might want to talk about and give context, you can just forward to this address. Then it will come up in your context on your today, so you can see what it's learned today, what it's looked at, and it will show you some of those emails that you forwarded. Same with your newsletter, and it's tracking all of these, it's all milestones for you and your business, whatever you're doing.
So you've got Stripe, you've got Warp, you've got Plausible, you've got PostHog. There's so many things going on, I could probably stop now, it's like Pokemon, catch them all.
If we click on record tonight's episode, back to the setup, ask again is at the bottom. You can word it your way, put in what you want here, and then it will build questions around these topics, it's going to choose, it's going to give you threads. I've been through a few of these, but they keep getting developed, and the coolest aspect now honestly is a podcast. When you podcast here and you go long and you choose the app's host, it's going to give you threads, and then you click on just chat. You can hear them as well, let's see if it plays. They're all really human like, not really AI robotic like, and you can start the conversation. As I said before, literally you're speaking to someone who understands and knows your business, knows everything that's going on, everything you've said, it's so clever.
So the podcast side is kind of really developed, and the video side is obviously quite developed as well, it's more interview style, because when you're creating them, like I'm doing right now, it's me speaking to you, documenting my build but speaking to you at home. Where the podcast is kind of like you're speaking in a room with an interviewer and other people listening in, so it's kind of different. I do urge people, I do want people to use video more, I think it's just going to be more valuable in the future as well, when you look back.