<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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4/19/2021 - 4/26/2021
Successes
👍 Feeling like I have a very good handle on the basic functionality of Bubble. Have figured out how to do almost everything I need it to do.
👍 Showed the new setup to a guy who's beta testing the Coda version I built, and he loooooooved it.
👍 Started thinking through some design ideas to make it less horrible-looking.
👍 Talked to a bunch of new friends in the #100DaysOfNoCode circle and got some really cool antenna-up vibes re: different applications of this idea (more on that below)
Setbacks:
🚧 Realized my sitemap could use some work, and now I'm rethinking the whole user flow, uggghhhh. This means simplifying (good, yay!), but it also means I might be rebuilding a lot of it (boooo). BUT! With the bones already built, this might not be as horrible as I thought... We shall see
BIG QUESTION: How will users actually want to use it?
The purpose of the system is to pull information out of it and use it outside of the system. Basically this:
Here's the two ways I see someone going about it...