Put all your prep notes here and read notes of others in advance, so that we don’t waste time in the meeting and can move to the complex points right away

Prep Notes by Person

Lukas

Generelles Team Setup

Outline the general idea of the desired positioning

Present the tactical OKRs

Discuss focus of week 1 (aka what to start with)

Engage in builders communities with our fake accounts

Indie Hackers, Twitter

Consolidate Twitter insights by Julian Shapiro

see bookmarks Daniel

Check effort of translating existing content from german into english

30min

deconstruct

trends.vc⁠

newsletter in order to fill the pipeline of topics that are hot right now in the builders scene

Get ideas for what we could do

Get content ideas

Determine Organisational things:

Be accountable for your contribution to success

When do you want to do the weekly meeting? Keep Monday or other day?

Write your own tasks

Max

Dennis

Daniel

Meeting Notes:

What is New Things Development (NTD)?

Split teams in two to achieve OKRs: Sales & Marketing and NTD.

→ NTD's goal is to increase the surface area/visibility/awareness of us.

→ "get loud" & create "brand awareness" (of the buildersdock).

Idea:

→ Connect our Builders mindset and the Corporate world and operating/positioning in the intersection.

→ Combine the best of both worlds

Builders: hands on mentality + fast iteration + smart solutions to complex problems.

Corporate: economic value + large scale + our insights

⁠

Role Models: Julien Shapiro:

https://www.demandcurve.com/#gk7cxliqvlfe7xtjp85b0l⁠

long-term goal ≠ sales function! Goal = own product ideas through "community driven insights

short-term goal:

→ Create and establish structures for experiments → How to track them in a meaningful way?

→ Establish & evaluate metrics → Make results visible.

→ Establish in communities → Track activities.

→ Evaluate interactions: Interaction Score

→ Build true friends → Classify readers/recipients → Who receives and how → Who is a long-term audience?

→ Operate in different channels and "develop a feeling for them".

How: → Hypothesis driven work → Decisions should be made based on experiments/results.

→ Split channel tracking: channy salesoutreach, max experiments.

Aufgaben bis zum nächsten Meeting:

Max

Mit Fake Account in der Indie Hackers Community agieren (Verhalten auf die Aktivität testen) + Tracking von Effort und Return

Texte übersetzen

Interviews durchführen

Dennis:

Twitter Setup

Experimente

Daniel

Twitter Hustle + Tracking von Effort und Return

Lukas

Bei Indie Hackers mit eigenem Account agieren + Tracking von Effort und Return

Meetings: Montags → Zeitpunkt folgt

Meeting Results:

We want to position ourselves at the sweet spot of the intersection between builder / makers and the corporate world

Current focus is to engage in the builders community and facilitate as much interactions as possible

Interactions in the end shall help to

a) build an audience

b) get valuable insights that can be leveraged for new ideas

The efforts in this team don’t need to directly link to Sidestream (this is done via Sales & Marketing) → we are free to share our ideas and engage in non salesy interactions with others

We want to establish an experiment driven approach

We want to track our efforts with the correct metrics to facilitate informed decisions on next steps and analyse the impact of the things we do

We decided to

a) Start to interact as much as possible (mainly on Indie Hacker by fake account (Max) and real account (Lukas)

b) Build a baseline understanding of twitter as another valuable metric

And then start interacting there as well

c) dig deeper into the topic of experimentation and start with building an experimentation framework

Meeting 2: 25th January (12:00)

Prep Notes by Person

Daniel: Talked with Nils → a niche where we see alignment between business & tech people at Sidestream might be an open source nocode tool e.g. open source airtable alternative

Meeting Notes:

Ideas Pitch (by Dan)

1. An open source nocode alternative to airtable

2 potential user groups

Devs (that quickly want to work with a database)

Builders (who need a database for their use case and do not have the skills or do not want to spend a lot of time in setting one up)

we can cover both sides of potential users and have the skillset inhouse (developers + product guys / builders)

could use it in projects as well

Main pain point with airtable = it’s bad API (for developers)

Nils was not satisfied with how the airtable API is usable

in daily business from product side we also find flaws within the tool

2. Marketplace for enterprises and builders

Enterprise has a request for a tool they need (internally or externally)

The similar requests of different enteprises (demand side) are pooled together

Matchmaking of enterprise pool with tool request and builder

Benefit for enterprises

Lower costs in comparison to an individual software development

Meeting Results:

Dan & Lukas conduct an indepth session for the relevant topics

Meeting 3: 1st February (12:00)

Prep Notes by Person

Meeting Notes:

Meeting Results:

Meeting 4: 8th February (12:00)

Prep Notes by Person

Daniel

New Product

Did a lot of research and talks on the airtable alternative see and follow

here⁠

(only will put structured notes

Next Step: Determine with Nils whether we already want to build an MVP e.g. for the gempex project and maybe by using open source code from competitor (baserow) → see

here⁠

⁠

Nevertheless we need to come up with a realistic best case plan and continue evaluating the most promising use case →

here⁠

are several suggestions on how to position, but not sure how to get the right early adpters in right now

Lukas

Twitter

Commenting experiment failed for me (especially looking at the “ROI” - spent a lot of time reading and wrapping my head around discussions - could only comment few - reactions on my comments resulted in 1 new follower)

Engage more with lower focus on quality?

Just not the right platform?

Dennis

twitterdeck implemented but could be better, problem → sometimes someone posts a story with 25 posts which messes up the idea behind it

implemented new structure to coda

twitter analytics, stats collected

Social-Media_suyQ2⁠

(Twitter Analytics, Analytics Lukas , Analytics Daniel)

note for myself: PB

Meeting Notes:

Product Idea wrap up (extensive information can be found

here⁠

and

here⁠

)

Oftentimes up to 80% of current projects can be build in airtable (effort ca 30min)

But: Airtable is lacking some essential features

Especially user management and authorisation concept (who is able to do what)

MVP Idea

Some airtable features

plus user mgmt + auth

User groups

Non dev savvy users are able to build use cases with the tool (see Nocode movement as the meta trend for that)

Developers using the tool (like they do it now with airtable although airtable API is not good)

Additional feature ideas

version control

action logs

It needs to be defined which user group and related use case we want to tackle first

Things that Daniel wants to have covered in the meeting

I don’t feel the 0 to 1 spirit → this has to change immediately

Clear Split of of responsibilities between. buildersdock and new product. Still leverage eachother

Meeting Results:

Dan focuses on strategic product thoughts

Dennis and Lukas do product validation groundwork (tbd)

Twitter engagement is still pursued by Dan and Lukas but not as a team effort

Meeting 5: 15th February (12:00)

Prep Notes by Person

Daniel

Moving forward the idea to build an MVP while being paid for the gempex project → not super straightforward to do it because this makes gempex significantly more complex → a decision will be made this week

potential blocker: our weak understanding of what a MVP looks like

Collecting ideas for initial distribution

This week I want to focus on structured interviews at least theory, but I won’t have enough time to do more than 1-2 interviews, need support here.

Lukas

Groundwork (see

here⁠

for more extensive overview)

Makro learnings (attention: all learnings and hypothesis following are based on a rather small sample size)

response rate and depth of discussion is higher in slack groups (closed communities) than in forums

problems mentioned were understood and shared by others; pitched idea was not fully grasped

Not sure if community / forum approach yields the insights we are seeking → right now I have the impression that it boils down to asynchronous 1on1 conversations (→ could be more insightful to have a 20min talk with that or similar person; interviews?!)

Micro learnings

In enterprise context a solution build on airtable as underlying db may not satisfy the needs for security and flexibility

people oftentimes use third party tools (stackerhq, softr) to build on top of airtable → airtable doesn’t provide the required vertical integration to cover whole use cases

notion and coda tables are used to cover internal processes (e.g. payroll, employee time tracking, project time tracking)

granular user rights management was emphasised as a lacking feature here

Other tools mentioned

⁠

baserow.io⁠

⁠

wappler.io⁠

⁠

stackerhq.com⁠

⁠

Dennis

see Lukass notes

collection of my responses

⁠

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vlE5ubj3jB46dkE1AqKoX_JaxM8orCyy0x9CWN6tgn8/edit⁠

⁠

those two links were recommended , do they solve our problem:?

⁠

https://support.airtable.com/hc/en-us/articles/203941415-Record-level-revision-history-overview⁠

⁠

https://support.airtable.com/hc/en-us/articles/202887099-Permissions-overview⁠

⁠

Meeting Notes:

Airtable Learnings Summarised

Problems with Airtable were confirmed but noone was thinking about a really dedicated solution?

Feedback on Groundwork → I am still missing the real 0 to 1 spirit when I see things like

We got a reply and havent replied for 2 days → no notifications set?

https://www.reddit.com/r/thesidehustle/comments/li7nae/someone_interested_in_our_product_process/⁠

⁠

We get a good reply and don’t ask any follow up question to did deep. E.g thanks for that, what do you particularly like about baserow?

⁠

Let’s try to do structured interviews with people who had most insights e.g. Nishkarsh from the indiehacker thread → message them non Twitter etc. and be persistent not just one email if they don’t reply

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/worth-solving-my-own-problems-974bb6dfad⁠

⁠

For interviews:

some smarter way to identify the right people who might be potentially valuable (i don’t know how but has something to do with manual work + filters on Twitter and LinkedIn or the right communities)

Meeting Results:

Dennis

Create list of competitor products

Make sure that all responses in forums are answered with more questions + be persistent →

followup all the guys in direct messages

Target outreach today to 30 interview partners on LinkedIn → Focus on Operations

Pre-validate profiles + message with team

Tuesday evening revisit with Lukas whether there are already 2-3 people for interviewers

Conduct 2-3 Interviews based on structure

Ahref Competitor Persona Research Main Execution

Linkedin Interview Outreach Part 2

Prep OKR Meeting next week

Lukas

Make sure that all responses in forums are answered with more questions + be persistent →

followup all the guys in direct messages

Target outreach today to 30 interview partners on LinkedIn → Focus on NoCoder

Pre-validate profiles + message with team

Tuesday evening revisit with Lukas whether there are already 2-3 people for interviewers

Conduct 2-3 Interviews based on structure

Airtable Template Persona Research

Linkedin Interview Outreach Part 2

Prep OKR Meeting next week

Daniel

Conduct min 1 Interview

Prepare Mom Test manuscript for interviews till tomorrow evening

Ahref Deep Work + give Dennis Guidance

Help with Buildersdock

Figure out Gempex MVP Stuff

Prep OKR Meeting next week

Meeting 6: 22nd February (12:00)

Prep Notes by Person

Meeting Notes:

Meeting Results:

Meeting 7: 1st March (12:00)

Prep Notes by Person

Meeting Notes:

Meeting Results:

Meeting 8: 8th March (12:00)

Prep Notes by Person

Daniel

New Product

3 Streams: Content Curation (flo), Company Knowledge Base (Lukas), Something for HR (Daniel/Lukas)

Only work on first stream was done, hopefully there will be new infos on the other to by tonight

Flo

Content Discovery Problem

Community engagement -

here⁠

⁠

discord group generated a lot of comments

reddit too, but the users were very careful whether it could be market research/ a product pitch

One Pager with form (created with

Carrd⁠

)

⁠

findthat.carrd.co⁠

⁠

Meeting Notes:

finding right content:

→ hot topic: comments and tools implement that there is a need - the question is: how can we make it profitabel

→ Streams for Research:

Discord: Factual feedback

Twitter & Indie Hackers: less response/resonance

Reddit: catching marketing research --> subreddit rules must be respected (effort)

Other Products: Lukas has some calls → focus is placed after the talks

Meeting Results:

product focus: finding right content → wait for the results of the phone call

Flo:

focus on comments → validating product requirements → is there a way to earn money?

Meeting 9: 15th March (12:00)

Prep Notes by Person

Flo

Content Discovery Problem

Community Engagement:

here⁠

⁠

Obsidian Forum post generated 17 comments & 428 views

digressed from the subject(the question I asked)

Research of Products on the market:

here⁠

⁠

Edited LandingPage:

here⁠

⁠

How to continue from here?

Daniel

Airtable: Post from Baserow got quite a lot of traction on hackernews:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26448985⁠

⁠

Lukas

Product

Recruitment Tool

Conversation with head of recruiting

high market demand for pre qualified (or even non qualified) applications

chance that we can already offer our pipeline approach as productized service

will have another conversation to understand potential pricing and discuss next steps

Engineering knowledge mgmt tool

Initial call with contact person was positive in the way that there is interest to take the joint product approach

Next steps: Contact person is going to schedule interviews with other engineering teams → goal for us: understand the problem space

Meeting Notes:

Core outcome of the meeting is the agreement to build more systems (similar to the recruitment pipeline) for our efforts with regard to product

Meeting Results:

Flo

Find lean but “builders” like way to generate images for our blog posts (e.g. AI generated images based on text input)

(Eventually) pick up NFT topic if considered worthy by Dan

Consolidate community learnings for major platforms (Reddit, Indiehackers etc.)

Create platform specific accounts that can be used for further actions (consider platform specifics)

Dan

Investigate opportunity to drive growth via NFT

Meeting 10: 22nd March (12:00)

Prep Notes by Person

Daniel

New Idea based on ProCon from gempex: Go into the project controlling space with an own SaaS Solution

Pros:

Demand seems to be there (I am sure a lot of services business have selfmade soltuions)

large market

a lot of old school competition

we understand services business quite well,

gempex as potential pilot customer/maybe even chance to crossfinance development with a custom solution for them

I expect a high willingness to pay as project controlling is the core tool for service businesses

Contra:

High lock in effect makes switching to better alternative (our product) tough

Needs are probably quite heterogenous

Not clear whether one can get in with a lean MVP, as many might expect the “eierlegende wollmilchsau” right away

Starting niche not clear (yet)

Interest? Is that actually exciting or dry?

Other idea: Brainstorm more “spin off” use cases with ralf and gempex - I am sure there are many cases with a lot of potential (some ideas are in the initial report). Meta trends to leverage here:

Biotech is growing in general and gempex is leading GMP provider

Gempex has a lot of paper-based knowhow that is super valuable in the growing Biotech market → there must be several oppertunities for Machine Learning and maybe even Blockchain use cases - just need to tie together the right things

Lukas

Next discussion with recruitment contact person - see notes here:

Notes⁠

⁠

Idea for different service Tiers

Next step: Testing the service in pilot projects

Contact person in watching out her network for pilot customers

Flo

Content Curation

tried out

Feedly⁠

⁠

not that useful in free version

Leo → their AI research assistant

should filter out noise and prioritize important pages

waiting for onboarding meeting with Account Manager

‘Feedly for Builders’ - Lukas

created another

Landingpage⁠

Text To Image

⁠

Makeathon⁠

⁠

Application Deadline: 31st of March

Takes place on 16th - 18th of April

48h challenge to develop a real-world business case involving AI

Business Model Canvas

First prototype with GPT-3 usage

did some

test runs⁠

with different Converters(mostly created by random users)

sent a request to OpenAI waiting list

⁠

asked Reddit community⁠

, if somebody knows something about the DALL-E Beta access

Open AI is considering to make it ‘semi open like GPT-3’ see

here⁠

⁠

sanitizing the data could be a problem for OpenAI (e.g. blenderbot facebook(offensive/racist language))

Meeting Notes:

Lukas:

Recruitement Pipeline

Talk with Berit Vidar

Pricing: UpFrontfee / Placement Fee

Idea:

Consulting Setup → Reverse Engineering

better give more value than necessary → budgets get moved to us

Daniel:

ContentCuration: matter Zugriff bekommen

gempex: nextLevel Idea?(Tesla Super factory)

Meeting Results:

Daniel

Email pitch Recruitment USPs

Michael Löeffler reach out due to potential product ideas

Flo

Try out matter

Landingpage (feedly for builders)

link meetings to topics in coda

apply at makeathon

Meeting 11: 29th March (12:00)

Prep Notes by Person

Daniel

New Case: Hybrid Workday - SAP Tool → clear value add and clear distribution (with or without Michael Loeffler)

Recruitment: I would say that if we don’t get a clear next step this week, we just ask other people, I think it is also an easy distribution case

Content Curation: Don’t find the right perspective right now - even Matter is like a marathon till they know if it is a business (we cannot make as many bets as YC) - what do you think?

Lukas

Content curation: Reflected on my content curation process; personally I can distill my content curation to one major channel: Referrals by trusted persons - this can come in different forms

Newsletter I already subscribed to is referring to other articles

Persons I know personally do refer a certain article or newesletter

Persons I respect (e.g. on twitter) refer content

→ Underlying factor: A lot of trust in the curator → very hard for us to build something where we would need to establish a lot of trust

Personio Marketplace idea mentioned at some point last week still interesting to me

Flo

Content Curation:

Feedly Leo Tryout:

Feedly⁠

⁠

put favorite sources onto one feed

→curate them by keywords/companies/release dates etc.

uses machine learning and NLP to filter out

u could also mute/ say Leo to show less like this

Matter tryout

Matter⁠

⁠

very clean look

you can follow your favorite writers/newsletters(also paid ones)

highlight passages(private or public), comment passages, repost articles

audio function

Integration to Readwise

maybe more following

you can follow each others

Project Controlling

Meeting Notes:

Content Curation

high trusted sources are used

will be defocused for now

Recruitement as a service

Personio

wollen traction builden

clean Integration could be a piggy bank solution

wer ist größter player auf personio?

Personio vs. workday

Hypothese: kann man workday über Personio market place vertreiben?

ProjectControlling

current tools may be outdated

PDF Editor

Discovery Problem?

could be a distribution problem as well

many cases

eher b2b case → sending/receiving documents to/from an applicant

Call mit Michael Löffler

workday <-> payroll Schnittstelle

Intro bei Deloitte

Meeting Results:

Flo

research of Personio market place

who is the biggest player here?

Meeting 12: 12th April (12:00)

Prep Notes by Person:

Daniel

Started Looking Into “Marketplaces”

started with Flos Personio Research → only existing tools offering intergrations (vs. we are looking to go plattform first)

Looked into

Stafbase marketplace⁠

- telekom guys are the only one that are offering

exlusive plugins⁠

yet (we know those guys from sidestream sales). Besides that the marketplace is still very early stage. We need to figure out whether this will become a priority for them (messaged cpo of staffbase but dont know if i get reply). Generally I am also not sure how big this is, so whether staffbase is worth it.

roadmap telekom: https://employee-experience-store.com/plugins/roadmap/

Started looking at MS Teams “Marketplace” → given all the Mittelstands Adapdation of MS Teams, this might be a thing.

Important to look at Teams/Slack-first products (so not stuff that just intergrates with it) like

https://www.attendancebot.com/#⁠

⁠

https://karmabot.chat/⁠

⁠

They are quite hard to find

Unmet needs are generally hard to identifty here

I think there is some potential to look at tools/categories with bad

https://www.g2.com/

⁠

reviews

Offer MS Teams Software development services (google ads) and see what kind of requests come

Linkedin outreach to MS Teams users and ask them for Plugins (credits to Lukas, he proposed the same for Personio users)

Started Looking a bit deeper into market intelligence tools

Idea is: See trends early on (through search requets etc.) and have a easier system to validate more bets in parallel (find a relevant trends, put local search ads + landing page in a few hours) see whether demand picks up)

Basically we spend less time on researching demanded things and more time on validating demanded things for us

Sources for market intelligence

⁠

Trends.vc⁠

⁠

Trends by the Hustle (have a 7 day trial till 18th April)

dan.50674@web.de⁠

pw: Br*NSCiuC6NQ

⁠

https://explodingtopics.com/pro⁠

(1 dollar 2 weeks trial) → Focuses on Topics + See differences according to Treendly founder → actually from the founder of Backlinko a famous (slightly) spammy SEO website

Some insights from its founder

How to use it for new businesses: It depends a little bit on what the trend is because when you find a trend, the next step is, who is searching for this? Who is interested in this and where do they hang out online? And what platform do they prefer to talk about this topic and learn about this topic?

⁠

https://meetglimpse.com/u⁠

(ca. 250 dollar per year)

⁠

https://trends.google.com/trends/?geo=US⁠

(free, not super useful, watch out for right geo)

⁠

Treendly⁠

→ start free (but small thing maybe)

⁠

Compared to Exploding topics⁠

(also good to understand limitations of exploding topics

Ability to monitor a keyword/topic over time. As a user, you can receive daily, weekly and monthly email alerts.

Secondly, you can search a keyword/topic in any country and what you search stays private to you so that you can build your own private library of trends.

Thirdly, each trend has so many related topics that we find by querying Google, Amazon, YouTube, etc that you can dive into.

Other ideas

Look at cases where less technical people try to do technical things (in less technical industries, where the have knowhow) → under some circumstances (knowing what to do, but distribution easy anyways) that might be code cases to purse

Handelsregister Crawler

Lukas

thoughts based on Flo's research:

all current third party integrations seem to be standolone prodcuts that use personio integration as another sales channel

up until now no personio native integration developed by third party

Since marketplace is still in beta (or released this week) there is still the chance to be early

Flying over the already exisiting integrations it seems that there is already quite a lot of integrations for the obvious cases (e.g. recruitment or time tracking)

Flo

Personio marketplace research

HR Tools⁠

⁠

Personio wants to strengthen their focus on the marketplace see

here⁠

⁠

Validating Product Ideas⁠

⁠

rough proceeding plan on how to approach on new product ideas

will grow by time

steps are not fixed

Meeting Notes:

Meeting Results:

Marketplaces:

Personio:

Reach out to Personio contact and ask for intro to PM (from VLOG) in order to better understand their marketplace plans (Lukas)

Staffbase:

Dan has reached out to CPO and asked for their plugin game → wait for answer and act upon it (Dan)

MS Teams:

G2 Research (investigating tool categories with rather bad reviews) (Flo)

Community research (internationally: value to build native MS Teams plugins; german market: ask for concrete needs) → lean approach (Flo)

LinkedIn Outreach

Understand which companies are using teams (Dan, Lukas)

Understand which persona to tackle (contact persons) (Dan, Lukas)

Build sidestream landingpage to offer custom teams plugin creation

Do keyword research to evaluate whether it makes sense to work with Google Ads to drive landingpage engagmenet (Dan)

Market Intelligence:

General idea: We need to come up with more ideas more quickly

Goal: Evaluate sidestream fit for pre-identified trends

Research based on reports:

Do a trends by the hustle research and identify sidestream relevant topics (Flo) (after trends by the hustle, we look at exploding topics, glimps)

“Steal” ideas from others industry experts - idea

Use old company of Jacqueline as first investigation and understand what they are doing → inquire Jacqueline afterwards to doublecheck quality of research based on publicly available information (Lukas)

Meeting 13: 15th April (09:30)

Meeting Notes:

MS Teams Research:

Hard to target relevant persons via LinkedIn

Meeting Results:

Check MS Teams uservoice

Meeting 14: 19th April (12:00)

Prep notes by person

Flo

⁠

Blockchain - Crypto⁠

Crypto is hard for newbies

In forums/ discord groups the language is hard to understand for people who are not that deep into the crypto universe

There is a

list of Dapps⁠

→ worth to take a look at for product ideas in the crypto universe?

⁠

The Generalist⁠

⁠

New Ideas collected

Next step could be a reddit deep dive to unbundle subreddits for product ideas

Lukas

Research on open source Carrd alternative

No much out there at the intersection NoCode and Open Source

Guy who was doing this (approached via twitter) said it was hard technically and did not get early traction

Should we try to deconstruct Product Hunt for us a little bit more

Fresh Thoughts based on the following article

https://latecheckout.substack.com/p/product-hunt-the-internets-destiny⁠

Again a little bit more bullish on Product Hunt

Thinking about ways to leverage this platform a little bit more

engage in the community and understand better how it is working

watch out for nice product ideas and try to deconstruct what they are doing well or can be improved

draw some early learnings on what gets traction on PHunt and what not → Why

Dan

Built

http://innovaty.de/⁠

→ could use this as a bet that we take a bit more downstream (get some tractions/sign ups).

Early Learnings:

Good to have an “indusry expert on board” → my gf is a teacher, it gives confidence to validate a lot of positioning and also copy things with an expert early on

Using Carrd: It does the job, but certainly need to Pro Plan → fair learning curve, first LP took me 3 hours (Carrd) + 3 hours (Concept + Text) → 2nd one will only take 1.5 hour Carrd

Open Source Carrd: Not too confident, Carrd is not great, but does already a good job, abstracting away a lot fo complexity → not something we can do better in a few weeks

It still could be a good product if we could combine it with something like

https://tailwindui.com/⁠

components for an MVP, but the problem is probably that they won’t allow it

Should we try out another market intelligence tool?

https://meetglimpse.com/⁠

→ I can forward probably all free emails of last 2 years or so

FYIs

Meeting Results:

Check the research on Generalist for interesting ideas (Lukas, Dan)

Move innovaty one step further (facebook ads) → (Wed, Dan + Flo)

Closer look on the crypto research (Dan)

Take global ideas to Germany

A16z - What do they do with crypto?

Investigate mechanics of Product Hunt (Flo, Lukas)

Forward glimpse Mails(Dan)

Check them(Flo)

Meeting 15: 22nd April(11:00)

Prep notes by person

Flo

Innovaty

Posted

Intro Message⁠

in several communities; see

Posts & UMT Links⁠

It is not liked by the users of ‘Family-communities’ to post advertisement on there → will be deleted after a few minutes/hours; BUT it generated the highest traffic (5 individual users in 1/2 hour)

And they will comment(RAGE)

The facebook groups did not generate that much traffic(1 clicks after 1 day)

Product Hunt

Created a

collection of idea lists⁠

on there.

Went through some ideas and collected them at

Product Hunt⁠

Takes much more time to find ideas than using market intelligence tools

You have to look onto which subreddit is trending

Used

Frontpagemetrics⁠

90days trends list is full of nsfw content

⁠

Redditlist⁠

⁠

Not able to look in the past(just 24h trends)

Collected a few subreddits at

Reddit⁠

but did not come up with an idea yet

⁠

Memory Cloud⁠

⁠

Grant Writing Software⁠

Lukas

Dan

Meeting results

Meeting 16: 3rd May(12:00)

Prep notes by person

Flo

⁠

Community Management⁠

Answer by dru riley

linked to his community

Also

Justin Welsh’s post⁠

showed relevance and generated a lot of traffic

“There is no all in one solution”

Side learnings:

Information overload is a thing

Recent post about this topic got like 20 comments

Pointed out what they are missing and about not having a solution

Do you know

https://raindrop.io/⁠

Mentioned

audioblogs⁠

→ article to audio

Maybe picking up

Content Curation⁠

again?

⁠

Reddit⁠

Documented blockers for going through the

Unbundling Reddit Guide⁠

⁠

r/gardening⁠

I am not sure what a product idea could look like on here

But its definitely tomatoes

⁠

Education/Fitness Gaming⁠

Fire TV Stick/ Chromecast Apple TV App?

Everybody connects their mobile device and can join a sports game?

Something like

this⁠

, but better?

A Minecraft world/server, where you have to solve mathematical questions to unlock new items/levels?

A game like app, that tracks your step and you unlock vouchers for Lieferando?

Fitness tracking for VR devices

There is already

YUR Fit⁠

⁠

A Moodle gaming plugin?

here⁠

⁠

Gamify Google Meets, Zoom calls, etc.?

⁠

Classcraft⁠

→ Turns student progress into a game with levels and rewards that teachers can choose or personalize

⁠

BookWidgets⁠

→ Provides over 40 free templates for teachers to create interactive lessons for students

⁠

Quizizz⁠

→ Utilize pre-made quizzes or create their own

⁠

Memory Cloud⁠

Child growth niche got the most traffic → corona might be the reason why vacation niche isn’t highly requested at the moment

Came across

1 Second Every Day⁠

and liked the idea

Make a single photo each day(takes like 10 seconds) → a video generated each month/each year

⁠

VSpace — Create, store and share useful links with your team⁠

⁠

Random Ideas

The Nice Place - Home⁠

→ social platform where you get paid for being helpful

WBS criteria

⁠

LearnPine - Live classes⁠

→ Twitch for education

⁠

Garden Rental Space: a-community-of-gardeners-and-landowners -⁠

⁠

Dan

What’s the Status with Drag & Drop presentations: Did you show Max the alternatives you found? Does he still see a gap?

Lukas

Meeting results

Lukas:

2nd Shot Unbundling Reddit

Staffbase Session mit Daniel

Flo:

Search more API provider, SDAX, MDAX, TecDAX Lists and contact them

Daniel:

Look into Memory Cloud Details

Staffbase Session mit Lukas

Meeting 17: 4th May(15:30)

Prep notes by person

Flo

Dan

Lukas

Meeting notes

API Pitch to eventim?

Manuell 2-3 Leute anfragen

New Ideas:

Slack bot, welcher einen daran erinnert, wenn neue Idee eingefügt wird

Lukas Staffbase

Über Staffbase —> was sind die größten Kunden?

Mitarbeiter von diesen Firmen anschreiben ‚was hätten Sie denn gerne in Ihrer internal App?‘

Interesting parts of Brainstorming für Plugins at

Staffbase⁠

Trivia

Standalone + Plugin für company communication tools

Internal Leaderboard aspect

Planetly for internal

Ideas during Meetup

ELearning

Was ist die Future of corporate Elearning in communication apps

Idee:

Was trended gerade standalone in Elearning?

Abgespeckt version (wenig effort)

Something about personal branding innerhalb einer Company

Internal branding:

Show that your an expert in Excel/Coda, etc.

Search through Ahrefs

Channy is an expert here

Keyword Explorer

Google ads manager

Meeting results

Flo

Find out communication tools of HelloFresh & Zalando & Telekom

Whats already there for internal employee competition → Intranet gamification

Create a Slack Bot for reviewing new ideas?

Lukas

⁠

Do a research on internal Trivia tools

Standalone + Plugin für company communication tools?

Meeting 18: 6th May(10:00)

Meeting Notes

Daniel hat staffbase Podcast gehört

Schon ganz anderer Bereich

Internal communication comms

Großes Department in größeren Companies

CEO Podcast gibts schon

Das wichtigste tool im deutschsprachigen Raum ist der Kantine Speiseplan

—> nach Podcast: greifbarer, was das für ein game ist

Es geht darum möglichst einfach den Leuten etwas bereitzustellen

Watercooler Trivia

Ein developer, der das am Wochenende macht

$1/user/month

Different tiers

Distribution channels:

1. friends

Dann bottom up

Dann podcast

Standard channels(SEO + pr)

Featured in fast company article

Viel Potential in asynchronous quizzing

Man spricht mit Mitarbeitern drüber, Bob was richtig ist

Extrem ops heavy

Am Anfang viel Fragenfindung

Macht das full-time seit june 2020

Davor ende seit Ende 2019 nebenbei

Meeting Results

Dan/Lukas: guy von Staffbase einen pitch geben

Trivia

Elearning

sports buddy

Flo: Marketplaces von Coyo, Staffbase, etc. anschauen

Welche Arten von Plugins gibt es?

Plugins die einfach andocken

Plugins von der company selbst geschrieben

Custom nur für die company

Meeting 19: 10th May(12:00)

Prep notes by person

Flo

⁠

Get Twitter threads straight to your inbox⁠

⁠

Kern.al⁠

posted sth. related to

Content Curation⁠

Twitter thread tool

Idea validation tool?

Like its done at

Kern.al⁠

Buttons for:

would use it

would pay for this

would help to build

would invest in this

Carbon Offset Plugins/ Tools

⁠

Balance by Carbon Checkout Store - Shopify⁠

→ Customers now have the option to balance the carbon footprint of their order

⁠

Offset Shopify⁠

→ Calculates the total emissions generated by your shipped orders → becomes monthly Offset cost

⁠

Carbonalyser - browser extension which reveals the climate impact of internet navigation⁠

⁠

CO2ok for Woocommerce - Wordpress⁠

→ Customers now have the option to balance the carbon footprint of their order

⁠

Carbon Checkout⁠

→ Independent from eCommerce store → 2,000+ eCommerce partners

⁠

Nul — Climate neutral teams.⁠

→ 1€ fee for every team member

⁠

Carbon Offset My Employees⁠

→ Independent carbon offset payment

Lukas

Dan

Flo should take over Staffbase-like reach out

Meeting notes

Meeting results

Staffbase Outreach:

Filter flo's list

All European companies

Start broader outreach (Flo)

top-down

API Idea:

Investigate from Dev Perspective (Dan)

Misc:

Consider using Toolbox as Product / Service

Meeting 20: 20th May(13:00)

Prep notes by person

Flo

Staffbase plugin ideas

⁠

Bravely - your mental health app⁠

⁠

Employee engagement made for employees.⁠

⁠

Product Hunt

⁠

Keylitic⁠

→ Product trends discovery and search (ProductHunt)

Pretty expensive as I think($55/month in minimal version)

Facebook market place got very big recently

⁠

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⁠

Garnet⁠

→ another community platform

Figma Plugins

Learning plugin for Figma:

Figmaster⁠

⁠

Design system for Figma:

Module⁠

⁠

Duckly⁠

→ talk and collaborate together → code together

⁠

Run With It Podcast⁠

Listened to 5-10 episodes

Not THE idea source

“Split-testing SaaS Pricing with Ben Orenstein”

⁠

Tuple⁠

→ automatically read out the analytics events

someone gave a rating

someone signed in

someone had a call

→ use it as background noise

Peleton live classes but for doing pomodoros for work

Everyone is working

Someone says “25 minutes of working”

Someone “says 5 minute stretching”

Someone goes “25 minutes of working” again

⁠

Plugins on employee platforms⁠

Will have a call with the CPO of

Beekeeper⁠

⁠

Axero Solutions⁠

→ At the moment our requirement is to integrate 3rd party platforms as addons on our platform. I understand this is not something you are able to do. Is that correct?

Dan

Tough play right now

Staffbase no reply, other plattforms still sceptical

Developer Tools, nothing striking yet, will go with Nils through list

Considering to move into Crypto, reasaning known

Lukas

Meeting notes

Meeting results

Meeting 21: th May()

Prep notes by person

Dan

Flo

Content curation will be done by Twitter’s premium feature:

Twitter is working on a new premium subscription option that will include the ability to unsend tweets, allow users to save their favourite tweets, and promote clutter-free newsfeeds

Coyo - Next steps

Decide which demanded topic is meeting our field of interest

Facebook

LinkedIN (hier haben schon was vorgebaut auf AWS Basis, solltet ihr euch anschauen)

Personio ( Würden wir wahrscheinlich sogar selber nutzen)

Ein Tippspiel zur Bundesliga oder ein ähnlicher gamification Ansatz.

Discuss about the pricing? Since you where a little skeptical

⁠

Setup a next call with Christian Ebel to talk about use cases

Crypto

⁠

Broken link⁠

⁠

Search for an alternative

Layer 2? Focus on Polygon & Optimism?

Should we message the guys directly via LinkedIn?

Since the guys from Maker and i assume in general in the guys in the crypto space are very open to talk to everyone → That could be an easy way to go

Lukas

Meeting results

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