8/12/2021

Fish Rules Day 55

In a tech culture where things are seemingly valued if they don’t last, this is refreshing:

Friction Log

Did a podcast episode with Cesar and Jeff Haynie on Firebase - First Time Experience. Hopefully we’ll be releasing that early next week.

Marketing

Today is marketing Wednesday so I spent a lot of time working on initial experience and onboarding. Got our welcome email with some tips for users squared away too.

Biz.

Working lunch with Albrey

• Subscription features
• Ad and gov. sales
• New map design review
• Ad ideas for local shops
• Fish license approach(es)

Dev.

Worked on some much needed performance optimizations around the list + images on Android. Believe it or not the “FastImage” component I was using, which is supposed to be FAST, was causing major issues on Android because of the cache hits, so I removed it.

I changed our “Regulations updating” dialog to a small dismissible overlay that comes from the top and isn’t intrusive anymore.

I prototyped out a few things we’ve been talking about around making trips more social with the people you’re on a fishing trip with.