Mark Wood

Mark Wood

“From idea to product — shipping fast.”

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“Founder & builder exploring ideas, shipping MVPs, and creating products people actually love using.”

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Skim v1.0.16 — "Are You Still There?" 👻

The one where Skim stops impersonating a corpse.

A self-update could relaunch Skim into a window with a titlebar and nothing. Restarts didn't help. Reinstalling didn't help. Then, hours later, it just came back which is somehow more unsettling than staying broken.

Turns out nothing was broken. The whole UI was waiting on the first mailbox query, that query was politely queued behind the catch-up sync, and the app had no way to say "hang on, I'm reading" so it said nothing at all. For hours. In an empty window. Cool.

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My First SaaS Launch Just Failed (Or not?)

After building and launching 4 B2C macOS apps, I decided to release one of our internal tools that helps us evaluate and track marketing channels.

Days of preparing for the launch, setting up onboarding, landing page, redesigning the dashboard, testing, and more.

Converting an internal tool built for our needs into a standalone product is not as straightforward as you might think.

Do we need an phone app?

An phone app with sync'ed notes could be convenient, but we then lose the co-edit feature on the phone. It's more a quick notes. Eventually we can setup co-edit with the agent on the cloud. So phone can also enjoy the co-edit. Currently leave a todo for the agent on phone is definitely do-able.

Any thoughts?

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