#16 SlackGPT Week 6: First discovery interviews

Hey you! I鈥檝e been heads down in the customer discovery process, so today I鈥檒l be sharing a quick update on how that鈥檚 going + some stats on you 馃 馃檵Customer discovery progress Let鈥檚 start this off with some numbers. In the chart below you can see that around 1% (2/161) of cold messages get converted into interviews (馃ゲ). Half of those messages were very lightly personalized, and half of them I personalized more thoroughly, including based on your feedback....

March 22, 2023 路 3 min

#15 SlackGPT Week 6: Marketing babysteps and joining Antler

Hey there, thanks for coming! This week I started customer development efforts. The goal is to talk to people that could benefit from using SquidGPT, and understand what problems it could help them solve. That should translate into improvements and new features in the app, which will turn it into a product people actually find helpful. Also, big announcement this week: I got accepted into Antler鈥檚 April Paris cohort. Today鈥檚 show:...

March 15, 2023 路 6 min

#14 SlackGPT Week 5: User management and OpenAI鈥檚 own Slack bot

Hi and welcome to this week鈥檚 update! This week I was heads down coding the bot installation and user management. I finished that in good time and spent some time iterating implementing first feedback in SquidGPT鈥檚 website + some minor formatting improvements in the actual app. Finally, today I found out OpenAI is working on their own Slack app (鈿狅笍) - no surprise there, but still . 馃洿Road to a working prototype RIP old deadline of 28....

March 8, 2023 路 4 min

#13 SlackGPT Week 4: Landing page and user management

Hi and welcome to this week鈥檚 update! It鈥檚 been a month since I鈥檓 working on SquidGPT - a Slack bot that answers business questions according to pre-defined frameworks. I was hoping to have a working, installable version of the bot by the end of February. It looks like I鈥檒l be extending that deadline until next week (for now 馃槄) - turns out user management is more difficult than I thought....

March 1, 2023 路 4 min

#12 SlackGPT Week 3: Better answer quality and homepage

Hi and welcome to my weekly update! I鈥檝e spent the past 3 weeks working on a Slack bot that answers business questions according to pre-defined frameworks - SlackGPT. A minimum-viable version of SlackGPT is in progress. That includes a working bot that users can install onto their own Slack workspace and interact with from multiple touchpoints + a landing page. My self-imposed deadline (see random thought below) for this version is 28....

February 22, 2023 路 4 min