Hi and welcome to this week’s update! It’s been a month since I’m 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’ll be extending that deadline until next week (for now 😅) - turns out user management is more difficult than I thought. ...
Hi and welcome to my weekly update! I’ve 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 28.02.23. ...
Hi and welcome to my weekly update, where I write about the day-to-day of my attempt at entrepreneurship. Last week I wrote about my vision for the Slack app that I’m building, and what needs to get done on the way to a working prototype. In this post I share some updates on said prototype. 🛴Road to a working prototype This week, I’ve been focused on two things: improving results from GPT and building a running slack app with slash commands and shortcuts. In terms of the day-to-day, this involved hitting new technical walls, bugs and things I’ve never done before followed by reading lots of documentation and Stackoverflow posts, and most of all trying stuff. ...
Hi and thanks for coming to my blog! In my last post I wrote about committing to build a Slack app that gives access to the GPT AI language model. This week I’ve thought more about what exactly this app should be doing and also had great progress in building a prototype. In this post, I will be covering: 🔭 Vision: When my bot grows up, what will it become? 🛴Minimum Viable Product: Current state and what’s still missing 🗿Personal update: How’s it going, Stefan? ➡️Next steps: Step nexts 🔭Vision: When my bot grows up, what will it become? The vision for the bot is to serve as a business analyst working for decision makers and the teams that support them. It is targeted at CEOs, consultants (internal and external), and (real 😀) business analysts across strategy and operations functions. These people often need to think about ambiguous business problems in structured, analytical ways. ...
Hi and welcome to my weekly post! It’s been too long since we spoke last time, so why don’t you schedule a quick call with me here? In the last post, I talked about my ideas for Slack apps. They were either in the AI space or focused on productivity or integrations. In this post, I cover how I thought about my elimination process and what was left after it. 💡Choosing one idea to commit to On one hand, I don’t feel like any of my ideas so far are that amazing. Even the ones I get very excited about, when I read them the next day, I think to myself “That’s never going to work” or “Who needs that anyway?” On the other hand, real progress happens when you actually build something, show it to someone and iterate on the feedback. That’s why I’m sticking to my deadline for committing to an idea today. ...