Matt Gibson founder profile and startup updates

Matt Gibson

Building feedbackcircle for the indie community

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  • Interactive in app notifications

  • All products visible without logging in

  • Your own products are unique marked

  • Update dashboard to correctly show founder feedback score (it was showing average product score 🤦‍♂️

  • Added markdown everywhere

  • Fixed "Acknowledge" feedback button which was hard to see

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  • Updated the My Reviews page to founder feedback on your reviews

  • Fixed a bug where it always default "Are you the target market?" to false

  • Tidied up spacing in dashboard and card views

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  • Added product slogan for more control of dashboard cards instead of using description

  • Updated product view to use markdown & improved image centering

  • Added "Check out website"

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Fixed a bunch of issues from initial user feedback

Time taken: ~3 hours

Fixed bug preventing products from being listed 🙈

Time: 2 hours

  • Added password reset flow

  • Truncating homepage product descriptions for consistency

Time taken: ~3 hours

Just silent launched feedbackcircle.app 👀

Last batch of changes included:

  • GTM and GA configuration

  • Setting up the production and ensuring all is wired up correctly

  • Tweaks on whitelisting for early users

  • Privacy policy

  • Bunch of UI tweaks

  • Networking with interested users

Time taken: ~7 hours

  • Configurable locking down of features to support an exclusive launch window

  • Deploying a staging environment

  • Consolidating all logging

Time taken: ~3 hours

Updating all logging to either go to Axiom with next-axiom or stdout with pino-logger

Was a bit of a painful experience as I initially tried to use pino with an axiom transport. Couldn't get it to work with app-router though so just toggling between pino & native axiom client now

Time taken: ~3 hours

  • Fixed issue where user couldn't see feedback from other users (needed a LEFT JOIN instead of INNER JOIN)

  • Now correctly decreasing user credits once a review has been received

Time taken: ~2 hours

Got stuck in build mode for this one 😅 but we are so close

  • Fully working credits powered review queue

  • Form validations across the board

  • Tied down routes for beta launch

  • Improved navigation

  • Early launch bonus credits

Time taken: ~15 hours

Added the review queue allowing product owners to request reviews for their product.

Includes:

  • Request review UI

  • Undo review request toast (reusable for other toast scenarios)

  • Credit management

Time taken: ~10 hours

Introduced Credits

  • For each review, the reviewer gets 50 credits

  • The product owner acknowledges the feedback and gives it a feedback score

  • The reviewer can get up to 50 bonus credits depending on the feedback score

  • Introduced requirement to review earlier feedback in order to view newer feedback

  • Fleshed out the "My Products" view - kinda loving it 😅

  • Added "My Reviews" section

  • Added ability to update products

  • All the backend to support 🙂

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