<aside> 📌 I'm building a Grant Proposal Language Library web app. This page is one installment of my weekly updates, which I have no doubt you will find to be riveting and insightful. And if you don't know what I'm talking about or what this is, you can read about what I'm building and why over here.
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4/13/2021 - 4/19/2021
Note: There are many gifs on this page and if they look weird, just click on them once and it should fix it. Dumb thing.
I've resisted writing this because who tf am I writing it for, I have no idea. But I guess it's worth writing? That's what the hardcore #buildinpublic types swear by and maybe there's something to it.
Anyways, pushing past the "who has time for this crap" stuff and charging forward with an update to no one in particular.
I'm breaking down my updates into a few categories: functionality, UX, learning, marketing, and design.
I initially thought of this as a simple tool to store past grant proposal language and pull chunks of it when writing a new proposal. Not a CRM or a project management tool, or any of that other stuff. Simple language library.
But then I built it in Coda and I was like "THIS CAN DO EVERYTHING!!!" and I built all that stuff. My Coda version calculates your all-time amount raised, automates client updates, manages your daily tasks, tracks your time...