What I planned and did for the week

In the second week of working on Live man switch I actually wanted to complete all the functionality and have the service ready to deploy.

The biggest part was implementing the actual switch building and all the logic around it:

• validation
• automatic switch processing every minute
• sending of checkup email or sms messages
• chekin mechanism
• sending the actual messages or firing webhooks after trigger condition is met
• disabling the switch

Apart from that there were other functionality to be implemented and tested:

• phone number verification
• email verification
• login/signup via various oauth providers

I've implemented all of that, added proper Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy, improved copy and did first rounds of testing. I also paid for some articles on Fiverr about the service, which I wanted to use to explain some possible use cases for Live man switch. Those articles arrived few days ago and were almost a total failure. The writer failed to talk about the actual usecases and service and talked about some random technology in general. So for the next week I will need to do that myself and also finish the testing, get the Stripe account verified and then deploy the live service.

Challenges I faced

Biggest challenge for me was handling non tech things in this week. Sometimes I loose 1-2 hours struggling with figguring how to write some microcopy. And also that failed gig with Fiverr did not help in that regard.