Build in public: the Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Welcome to our newsletter. This is the “build in public” series in which we share our product updates and some inside news.

The Good

Before we start providing the recap; want to give you an overview of what we have built so far.

Our public pages are all built; a version of which you can see at https://mentorange.com. The majority of our micro-services and backend are built. Focusing on building out the frontend. Truth be told; IMO backend and micro-services are faster to build. It takes time and effort to make sure the UI is pixel-perfect, not buggy, and secured.

The Bad

We completed sprint 13, and we did not complete all the planned items. The one item that dragged on for a while was building out the community feature. Yes, we built this feature from scratch. Why not buy vs build? Yes, a valid question. After very thorough research and reaching out to many other applications that provide community capabilities, it did not fit the requirements we were looking for. Either they lacked the se…