Part of the Process

Photo by  rawpixel  on  Unsplash My journey with writing new R scripts had taken a bit of break recently. It started with exploring Text-mining. Then creating my library of reports for Product Management . Although R takes a bit of getting used to, it is like Excel x100 once you do. It is great for repeatable analysis and report generation. Saving a lot of the hassle of the export, format, and save cycle that I was going through. The problem When I needed a new report though I took the chance to expand my skills. I wanted an automated report that showed progress in the product process. This was to show the pipeline to meet strategic goals in the product ideas worked on. This should be in a suitable format to share with senior management. An be understandable especially to those outside the Product team. The solution I had been manually noting figures from the ProdPad UI when I remembered that there was an API. I took a look and it is a nice RESTful API with a JSON pa

This is  part of a series  about my side project  Bashfully , which aims to give graduates and other new entrants to careers a seasoned professional level way of expressing themselves through the super power of story telling. Following the core principles of being discoverable, personalised and guiding in approach. Photo by  Nathaniel Shuman  on  Unsplash New short term goal One of the bigger things to happen to the project in the past month is creating a new short term goa l to  “make it as easy as possible to get resume info in and a PDF out”. This came from engaging with a potential user on Twitter that really bought this use case out as a good hook. As a follow up to that we also got four new  users  organically . Finding our product/market fit has been very heavily influenced by a) how we show the complexity of the product and b) how opinionated we make the process of using it. Succeeding in this short term goal then opens up a path to some more long term aims, whi