Business Update 002
Hey everyone,
Happy New Year! I hope you got to spend time with friends and family over the last few weeks and have put together a gameplan for success in 2025. I travelled back home for a few days, but am now back to the grind on Crowd Card.
My (professional goals) for the new year are simple:
Make at least 1 commit on GitHub per day
Launch Crowd Card on iOS
Focus on growing Crowd Card’s social media presence
Establish relationships with at least 3 mentors to help with business development
Launch beta for Crowd Card Web App
Business updates
Just a quick update on my progress for Crowd Card…
While I learn the ins-and-outs of Swift to build the iOS app, I am also working on building out an admin web app. I am building this admin portal, essentially, as a CMS - it will allow me to manage users on the app, as well as events (e.g., upcoming UFC cards) and sub events (e.g., fights within a card, rounds within a fight, etc.). Over time, I’m sure the portal will include more features, but for now, user and event management are my primary focus.
I do not want users pre-emptively judging rounds, or changing previous judgements after the fact, so judging will need to be time gated (e.g., from 10-seconds remaining in a round until 10-seconds into the next round). At initial launch, much of the event management will be manual - as fights are happening, I will be watching live and opening / closing judging. As the app develops, I will eventually move away from manual event management toward a more automated process, perhaps through API calls (if you know a service that provides round stop/start indicators, let me know).
To build the admin portal, I am leaning on my minimal (but non-zero!) web development experience. Several years ago, I built a small website / blog for a consulting company that I co-founded. I built that site completely from scratch using Youtube and other online sources to teach myself full-stack web development, with PHP in the backend. Because I have some experience with PHP, I will be using that for Crowd Card’s admin portal, but will use the Laravel framework to speed up development. I’m actually hoping to hack together an MVP for the portal this weekend.
Aside from that, I have much of the iOS app designed in Figma and have started to hack it together. From a business POV, I have filed my annual report with the state and am starting to consider “next steps” in terms of turning this into a more legitimate operation.
Coming Up
This week, I will be putting together a roadmap for development that should be published sometime next weekend. Until then, follow along on Twitter!
Okay back to work
Written by Daniel Kuhman
