Progress
Year of 2025: Work in Progress Updates
Inspired by Year of Output
Jan 1-10
Freshly graduated, newly unemployed. Lots of uncertainties. I’m focusing on what matters. Been building quite a bit. My commit history is looking good.
Re did my personal website and coded up the landing page for my company — Triad Labs.
Zeke is shaping up well. Product is being built. We hope to launch soon. On that topic, we have set a goal of 100 sign ups by the end of January. There’s been 2-3 I believe till now. Need to understand what is going wrong.
Efforts must be turned towards stuff that moves the needle.
Jan 12th
Created Mocks/PRDs for Zeke
Learning React - Completed this tutorial
Jan 16th
I know I just built triadlabs.co but I already revamped it using Bootstrap. Coding is fun. At least frontend.
Spent most of the day yesterday on my freelance Competitive Intelligence Assignment.
There is no escape I need to speedrun JavaScript before I move to the frameworks.
I should look for ways to increase sign ups for Zeke, to aid with that I wrote two SEO focused pages:
Jan 18th
Built another webpage — Read.cv Alternative
Read.cv shutdown, we decided to build an alternative. Will be a good addition to Zeke’s tools for job seekers.
Drove a few signups through my personal LinkedIn posts. That seems to be the only growth strategy that is decently working.
Couldn’t help it, I’m a big fan of OS sites. Created one (using a template of course): os.varunraghu.com
Jan 25th We are now getting signups on almost a daily basis. It’s only 1-2 on most days but still an achievement.
Set up payment related stuff, have a company bank account now, thinking of going with LemonSqueezy for accepting payments. The setup for that has began.
Gearing up for launch for next week. From then on the goal will be on revenue.
Jan 27th
Wasted quite a bit of time exploring alternatives to capcut yesterday. There is literally no other video editing tool on the market that offers same or similar capabilties as Capcut. DaVinci Resolve was so bad. (Well my Laptop couldn’t support the requirements.)
Jan 28-31
We can now accept payments. All process around that has been set up.
I ended the month at around 70 signups. Target was 100. Couldn’t get there. Need to introspect and come up with a reason why. What worked was me posting from my account on LinkedIn.
Posted shorts on Youtube It is actually reaching an audience. Had several comments and lot of views on one of my shorts. Clearly people like watching shorter videos better than reading or long form video. e
Product is not out yet. Focus is on launching. Had a few technical hiccups along the way.
YC released their request for startups, built a landing page for the docusign 2.0 idea here: docsy
Applied to a few accelerators and other founder programs, was rejected. Feeling blue and pathless on several days..
Need to lock-in harder. Days are long. Months are short. Years are shorter.
Feb 1-6
A good amount of my time was spent focusing on the freelance competitive intelligence assignment for a leading Customer Experience Platform.
Payments flows are being setup and are almost done. I setup Intercom for customer support, thank god for the startup programs. I also got into the Slack ecosystem. A good messaging software goes a long way. Only question - can we afford it once the trial is over. I’m sure I’m going to be addicted to it by then.
Wrote launch emails for Zeke.
Posted a reel/short. Got some feedback on how to make it more interesting. Will revamp my content strategy to make it more engaging. Also looking into posting on Instagram to improve content distribution.
Feb 12
Got our first paying customer yesterday! Definitely a big milestone for us as a team.
Applied to YC. Appied to Ship It by Founders Inc. Just need one big break.