Monthly Retrospective - December 2024

By Max Sherman · Jan 12, 2025

Stats

  • Not sure how many hours worked
  • Streamed 0 hours on Twitch (0% M/M)
  • Stripe payouts $2,430.28 (+9% M/M)
  • 312 Twitter followers (-2% M/M)
  • 171 Twitch followers (0% M/M)

QSR

I am adopting a framework for product development that I'm calling QSR, which is short for Quality, Speed, and Reliability.

Quality

  1. Product quality, like generating minutes with good content and formatting. Output that looks similar to what the customer really wants.
  2. UI/UX that makes sense, feels natural, easy to use, simple.

Possible KPIs here:

  1. Minutes thumbs up
  2. Minutes thumbs down
  3. % thumbs up
  4. % thumbs down
  5. % exported
  6. % edited
  7. Average edit distance, e.g. length of the diff
  8. Rageclicks
  9. "Bug report" intercom tickets

(7) is definitely an interesting one now that we have editable minutes.

Speed

Pretty self explanatory, generally all perf should be fast.

Possible KPIs here:

  1. Time from file upload -> preview minutes
  2. Time from file upload -> full minutes (for non-paywalled)
  3. File upload throughput, file_size / upload_duration
  4. Sidebar navigation duration
  5. Landing page -> dashboard navigation duration
  6. Landing page load duration

Reliability

Minimize crashes and avoidable failure modes. Inform the user on how to proceed.

Possible KPIs here:

  1. SAD users, i.e. users with a negative event like transcribe_failed or on_drop_errored
  2. % failed, i.e. the percentage of uploads resulting in neither transcribe_finished, or transcribe_paused

Goals for Q1

  1. 10x sales with an “insanely profitable” FB ads strategy
  2. Extreme improvement to QSR product pillars

Goals for January

  1. Hire an FB ads specialist
  2. Overhaul dashboard UI to be beautiful, Minutes, Paywall, Progress indicator
  3. Create and track KPIs for QSR in Posthog
  4. Run A/B test for redesigned landing page
  5. Improve QSR