What I Am Working On

Here are some things I am working on at the end of 2024. Professional AgendaScope — a SaaS platform for helping teams to clarify their thinking and priorities and find and fix the misalignments that get in their way. This is kind of a “life’s work” deal as it encompasses a lot of years of building software and helping leadership teams think more clearly. AgendaScope is written in the Elixir programming language and uses the Phoenix LiveView framework. Most of my time is spent with AgendaScope. Most recently building some OpenAI integration to help people write good headlines. ...

November 21, 2024

Make Demos Like Movies

It is somewhat essential when creating a SaaS product to have a great demo. For the longest time I was manually managing a demo organisation in AgendaScope. It really wasn’t a very good demo — the items weren’t well thought out and it had gotten ‘crufty’ - and, worse, I kept having to manually “reset” it, which was becoming increasingly painful. The straw that broke the camels back was me spending hours painstakingly building a new demo and then accidentally dropping the database it was in, with no backup. No, no, a thousand times no! ...

November 18, 2024