The episode, in writing
by Richard Lovatt · from the episode above, checked against what was said
This is episode nine. The topic I want to discuss is then and now.
Overnight, I was thinking about the episodes that I've created, and I guess some of them are visual, but a lot of them, and I would imagine most founders would feel this, you sign up and a lot of it is obviously you may be filming in the evening and you're just answering questions. I asked myself, imagine Bezos, you get to see him build Amazon from day one. You would want to hear from him in the evening, his thoughts, recollections, what he's done. But you'd also want to see visually what he's been doing. In today's day and age it's a bit different because you can do so much more. Maybe he did this just in a more manual way. But anyway, the point is, the visual aspect of what someone does and builds on their screen, on their laptop, on their computer is very important.
The episodes, if you do them in the evening, it's very just retrospective. "Oh, I've worked on this and I've worked on that." Now you can share your screen, but I thought, for example, my landing page over the course of five to seven days has gone through so many changes, for important reasons. I just thought to myself, I have no way to basically show you guys, look, here's where it started, this is day one, and then six months' time, here's what it looks like now. There's probably more aspects of a business, as well as showing a landing page. Landing page is just one aspect. Your website is one aspect of something that changes over time. There's probably a lot more. But I thought the aspect of being able to record those changes autonomously is important. I want to make it automatic so that founders and whoever else is using it don't have to think about that.
So this is the website. Every website right now, I created a new connection first. If you click in Connections in Account, one thing you'll see is Argos. Your page is photographed once a day and compared with the last one, the days it looked different. So it picks it up cleverly. It knows you've made that change, it knows how that visually changes, and then you can create an episode just on that if you want. It could be a major change, so it's something you could develop a topic around. Argos is something I didn't know about, found out about it today. It's really cool.
I've now created a new sign-up flow. So when founders do sign up, it does prompt them to connect Argos, because I know people would love to be able to look back and go, I'm glad I connected it, because now I can see this side-by-side comparison and show the development.
So now there is a tab at the top called Changes, and this is where it tracks it. If I click on that, you'll see it's basically photographed. It's the first photograph beside the latest one. Because I started it today, the left and the right is the same, but over time, as I track changes, you'll see all the new things on the right. So you've got the blog page and the changes, the build in public change, the featured launch pages, the homepage. You can click on them and kind of side by side see the change, which is super cool.
I just built this to show you guys what it did look like at the start versus now, and if you do connect Argos, you'd be able to do this anyway, but I just wanted to show this. On the left is basically my 30th of August, which is seven days ago, a week. This is how it kind of got spat out first, very simple, no imagery, it's really just a block of text. On the right is how it looks now, with videos, lots of imagery. It's really honed in on the selling aspect and the solution aspect. You can see the changes I've made. I won't go through all of the changes and why I made them, but I think it's pretty cool that you can see that side-by-side comparison now.