Marc Köhlbrugge

Work in Progress - A community of makers shipping together 🚧

Work in Progress is a community of makers. We help each other stay accountable and focussed on building, shipping, and growing our products.

We publicly share our todos, celebrate our successes, discuss our failures, track our goals, and provide each other with actionable feedback.

Don't ship by yourself, ship together!

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Tepes Ovidiu
No trial available. Can I at least get a refund if I don’t like it? I like the idea of supporting indie makers to deliver top quality stuff, but I need at least a backup, just in case I don’t find what I expect there.
Marc Köhlbrugge
@ovidiutepes Yes. Message me on Telegram (preferred) or Twitter if you want a refund for your most recent payment. My username is @marckohlbrugge at both places.
Jakub Juszczak

WIP is really helping with shipping. The streaks are cool and keep you busy.

The people are awesome and you will find always help!

Pros:

Awesome community

Cons:

none!

Pete

I've been a member for a few months now and it has been a really helpful place for testing ideas and getting help. Lots of funny chat as well.

Pros:

A great community of makers. Lots of helpful people who can give tips when building websites.

Cons:

None

Lowen
Wip.chat is a great product and idea. Awesome to see you succeed Marc! I remember what you said on my bday party and now it's growing so fast. feedback: sometimes find the signin a bit of a pain and going through the checklist. Maybe that's just my experience w telegram as I don't want to be online all the time for my own sanity+focus. Other than that I've decided to become a bit more involved in the community instead of just lurking 😅 Perhaps there's some improvement there for beginners to get involved in some kind of gamifying system. Like the feedback from Sally Poulsen in this article from justin jackson https://medium.com/@mijustin/the...
Marc Köhlbrugge
@mijustin @flowen_nl Thanks for your feedback Lowen. I agree the sign in flow isn't ideal. It used to be semi-automatic, but it only worked in about 90% of cases. In the remaining 10% it was impossible to sign in at all. I'll continue looking into ways to optimize the sign in flow. That said, it does set a cookie so you _should_ not need to sign in all that often. If you don't stay signed in please message me on Telegram and we can debug what's happening.
Jonny Platt

I was initially a skeptic - how can another chat group make productivity better, not worse? Perverse as it sounds, it really works well - seeing others produce great things on a daily basis acts as a huge source of inspiration, lifting you up, while the drive to hold a streak keeps you hitting your own targets and making a improvements big or small on a daily basis. There's also a rich seam of experience in the group and people are very willing to share their learnings and help each other out.

Pros:

Accountability and inspiration from an enthusiastic, helpful community

Cons:

Have to restrict chatting to breaks

Harry Dry

community worth it for this guy called pug pugson alone.

he's always helping people! in a major way!

Pros:

good group of people!

Cons:

nope

João Antunes

I have been using WIP for a while, it's like a super duper IRC channel where everybody is a maker and has terribly good insights. If you ask, you'll get an answer, and you'll feel a part of this community of strangers. Plus, for people like myself, I do like to give my opinion out and help others

It has great potential. When I tried it, it had no separate channels, now it does.

It shows that it's a good product where the owners are listening

Pros:

Huge, helpful and great community of makers

Cons:

None - I was going to say topics/something where you could have more than one channel would probably be better.But Marck did it meanwhile 🙏

Joel Baudin

I didn’t think it would be as powerful as it is but the Shipping Streak has me spending all saturday thinking ”What can I ship today to keep the streak going?” And that’s a great thing for keeping the momentum.

Pros:

Accountability, inspiration, discipline, get help, give help

Cons:

Quite hard to follow along in the chat group (if that's a priority)

Ebrahim-Khalil Hassen

I have been using WIP for exactly 138 days at the time of writing. It is difficult balancing my full time freelance analyst with the ideas I have for online projects. In the past I did not get much done. But, working each day a little bit on my projects I have gotten much closer to testing and validating ideas. And I get to test these ideas, with awesome and critical feedback on ideas, designs and business models over a Telegram group. And I get to learn from the very many projects and ideas being tested.

Pros:

Very supportive community. Makes building so much more sociable.

Cons:

None.

Daveyon Mayne
Who are the people that WIPs? Do they hold their full time jobs and do these todos when they can? Or, they are always free?
Marc Köhlbrugge
@mirmayne Hi Daveyon. It's a mixture of full-time entrepreneurs, freelancers with side-projects (often with the goal to become full-time entrepreneurs), and full-time employees with side projects.