April 2024
#BuildInPublic update:
🐣 HATCH Impact Portal live
🤖 AI-gen connections capability
💬 chat interface to member dir
🕸️ indexable profile content
Details here:
https://forum.problemattic.app/t/progress-update-apr-2024/2558?u=sean
Progress Update: Apr 2024
The month of April was entirely geared around making modifications to the platform to support the needs of HATCH. This is the first test of the vision of “Impact Portal as a Service” (IPaaS) and it went as well as it could have. Here’s the talk I gave on Wednesday giving a backstory of Problemattic and showing the features of the HATCH Portal: (video credit Amy Armstrong) Slides here. A month ago I knew nothing about building LLM-based applications, ETL, LangChain, n8n, Supabase,...
#BuildInPublic update for Feb 2024:
☃️ Lisbon Winter Fixathon complete
🐣 Partnering with @HatchExperience to power Impact Labs at Arcosanti Summit
🚿 Opportunity stream live
🧑🏾🎓 10 ASU EPICS interns onboarded
🌼 Spring dev roadmap firmed up
Details here:
https://forum.problemattic.app/t/progress-update-feb-2024/2526 
Progress Update: Feb 2024
February was a busy month both from a platform development perspective as well as an event perspective and project success. We concluded our Winter Fixathon series with the Build Day and Demo Night (photos of each at their respective links). I had only four pages of takeaways from this past series (down from 9pgs for the previous event) so that’s a positive sign. The main experiments I ran this time were: Testing the physical workbooks The rationale of printed workbooks at the event was to pu...
#BuildInPublic update for Jan 2024:
🧮 Community Leaderboard live
📆 Winter Fixathon in progress
📊 Opportunities Aggregator v1 launched
📈 Traffic up 277%
More here:
https://forum.problemattic.app/t/progress-update-jan-2024/2477?u=sean 
Progress Update: Jan 2024
The main push for January was in using the Clans feature to offload promotion of our Fixathon to other community organizations and to test out the concept of a community leaderboard for gamifying this friendly competition. So far so good. We had a total of 12 new members originated in the past month via these communities as per our leaderboard today: This is an early stage effort with lots of room to improve but it shows early promise. We’re now halfway through our current Fixathon having j...
#BuildInPublic update for Dec 2023:
👨👩👧👦 Clans now stable v1 and Impact Portal as a Service launched
💼 Non-profit, for-profit and open source proj types
💾 Savable filters for users and clans
🤖 GPT-powered AI chatbot enabled for forums
and year-in-review:
https://forum.problemattic.app/t/progress-update-december-2023/2419 
Progress Update: December 2023
This is the last #buildinpublic update of 2023. I’ll first do a progress update for December and then do a short recap of highlights from 2023 and a look forward to 2024. Hiking Piestwa Peak in Phoenix, AZ the day after Christmas. Photo credit: Jill Gillespie. For any new readers here, welcome. I do #buildinpublic updates monthly as a way to remain accountable and open the kimono on this whole initiative and give a window into my thinking and our progress. You can find all the updates here ...
November
#BuildInPublic update:
👨👩👧👦 Clans v1 live
⚪️ Can now white label as your own impact portal
📲 Mobile UX deployed
💡 Development Impact Bonds epiphany
Full write-up here:
https://forum.problemattic.app/t/progress-update-november-2023/2413
Progress Update: November 2023
So the big news for this month is the advent of Clans v1 which I am cautiously-optimistic will be a game-changer. This now gives you the ability to in 30sec create a co-branded version of Problemattic and use it as a custom impact portal for mobilizing your community. You can see a quick demo of how to set this up here: This was the major dev push for this past month and I’m pleased to have the v1 live as of today. It’s super basic feature-wise for now but the core functionality is t...
Our October
#buildinpublic highlights:
📬 Added messaging capability amongst users
📚 Project dir are now sortable
📝 All aspects of projects editable by owner
🤝 Sensible handshake workflow for proj contribs
More detail here:
https://forum.problemattic.app/t/progress-update-october-2023/2409
Progress Update: October 2023
October brought the following platform feature enhancements: It’s now possible to message users in the member directory via their profile (assuming they’ve specified their discord and/or forums usernames). All aspects of a project (project details, tasks, links) are now editable when you’re logged in as the project. The project directory is now sortable via key metrics like follower count, create date, last update, last contribution, task count and trade count. There is a ne...
Check what participants had to say about our last event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqJCSb2ORRU
We meet tomorrow to work with the winners on building their MVP's. Seeking to get feedback from anyone who has been through 1) burnout 2) diabetes 3) uses a CGM for optimizing metabolic health. @ us
Problemattic: Testimonials from Ideathon on 9/23/23
September
#buildinpublic update:
👨👨👦👦 launched member directory
📆 Ideathon 35 participants
👨👨👧 adoption process for orphaned projects live
📸 crowdsourced photo albums
📈 visitors up 325%
📅 Buildathon Sat (need feedback volunteers)
Full write up:
https://forum.problemattic.app/t/progress-update-september-2023/2380
Progress Update: September 2023
First off, huge props to all of the participants at our Ideathon at Casa do Impacto last weekend. What a crew! September #BuildInPublic update is going to be a long one. This past month saw the most progress both in terms of feature dev on the platform as well as refinement of the in-person event format. First advancements to the platform: The most notable feature deployment platform-wise was the launch of the public member directory: We now have a searchable, filterable directory of me...
#buildinpublic update for August:
🎥 created Explainer vids
📆 announced next events
💰 $8k+ in problem bounties
🎙️ released podcast Ep. 10
🦠 deployed event viral unlock feature
More here:
https://forum.problemattic.app/t/progress-update-august-2023/2355
Progress Update: August 2023
The One Thing for this past month was getting a definitive explainer video to inspire & educate people on how & why Problemattic. Mission accomplished: I broke it into two separate videos because 9min seemed like too much and this felt like the right separation to give a conceptual overview in one then a concrete example in the other to make it more tangible. It was a huge undertaking but I wrote the script, recorded the voiceover, found the music and used Ableton to r...
Our latest pod is live with former co-founder and CEO of
Pagely® Joshua Strebel
We talk SaaS founder lessons, transitioning from a consulting -> products co, community, culture, pricing strategy & more. https://problemattic.app/episode-details/10-lessons-from-pagely-josh-strebel
Listen here:
🍎https://grid7.co/10-apple-music
🔊https://grid7.co/10-spotify
or wherever you consume pods.
Problemattic: Ep 10: Founder lessons from building and selling a SaaS company to GoDaddy
Hear lessons from a startup entrepreneur who built and sold his company to GoDaddy and created generational wealth for himself and his employees in doing so.
