2024 Jopro Development Journal

It's been a full year since I started development on Jopro, which is kind of crazy to me. It's not been a full year, since I put it down from April to August to focus on my full time job. But since restarting in October I've got a lot done. It turns out, at least for my product launch, a lot of what I worked on didn't even make it in. All the web publishing stuff (what you're using to read this now) isn't exposed, and honestly probably doesn't fit with the overall purpose of the platform as it is positioned now. Metrics were cut from launch, and search. I added way more protocols than I initially had planned as well. But I think in the end this is what's important. Anyway this is probably my last update before I attempt to launch. I can't even capture the number of things I've done since my last update, but here they are from the launch list.

• Do a simple self audit for notebook security

• Test the do not store functionality

• Clean up Guided Journal flow for EMDR

• Clean up Guided journal flow for Expressive Writing. Don’t forget to use the breathing tool at the end.

• When it's a new account and there are no listed notebooks and you have a subscription, let's show something special on the dashboard

• Finish the stripe billing integration, so that people can actually pay for the product. Ensure credit cards are collected at the beginning of the trial. (This is enabled by default with stripe, we’ve set a 30 day trail period).

• Ensure the non-existent plans go to a coming soon page and we can register the clicks in analytics. At least a coming soon page, if not a signup form that dumps to the DB.

• Mental health resources page / link

• The learn more about our approach button on the homepage should go somewhere (‘m actually dropping this because I think we won’t have this after the home page redesign)

• Add a support email everywhere or a support quick link

• Clean up Guided Journal flow for Weekly Wins

• Clean up Guided Journal flow for Gratitude

• Fix the link from the exercise to the editor

• Clean up Guided Journal flow for BPS

  • Implement “Key Points” which shows a simplified version of instructions that’s not guided but just like overall things to remember. It’s a modal and a button to reactivate. You can have a setting which shows or hides it on notebook launch.

  • The main editor height HAS to eventually be the height of the window, it just looks so much better

  • The timer color is still indigo

  • Make the hidden timer icon fainter

  • Link the BPS template name under the notebook name to the bps slug / exercises page

  • The finish button should do something, I think go to a congrats page or something like that, and maybe have some confetti!

  • Verify the template and step text

• Implement EMDR widget

• Create a simple quiz that guides people to the templates (this could definitely be improved)

• Remove watermark from image uploads via transloadit OR disable the image upload feature

• Fix the bug when pushing enter editing tags the form submits on the edit notebook config

• Have AI do a clean up of the notebook config page

• The logo does not display in the email reminders properly

• Ensure consistent colors throughout the platform (I think we’ve removed all indigo)