I'm embarrassed. Last month I decided to start writing retros again and the very next month I failed to achieve the one thing I said I would.

Last month's focus

1. Capture some value from my car website ( carpricevalue.co.za ).

CarPriceValue

I toiled away at adding pricing tiers to my car website, but by the end of last month nothing hit production yet.

Why though?

• The integration with Paystack's API isn't that technical.
• I already had some ideas on different pricing tiers that I could offer.

The (too) easy answers:

• Wedding planning admin got in the way.
• I didn't plan the work properly and underestimated the effort needed to add subscriptions to the website.

The (deeper) complex answers:

• I'm afraid that I fail to capture any value at all (i.e., no one wants to pay for it).
• I'm afraid that I fumble this feature (code wise) and piss people off by screwing with their money.

Or of course, all of the above.

So yeah, I'm embarrassed and I've been beating myself up over it. I was hoping that if I just spend "one more day" on it, then I can save my ass and avoid writing this version of the retro, but I tried and it's not.

The good news is that, despite my unconscious efforts to sabotage myself, this is the closest I've been to charging people for using my software. Very exciting. Very scary.

Recent events (with zero context)

• My Freelance dev work has been a little less fun than usual.
• Wedding planning is giving me literal headaches.
• It's been super fucking cold (here in South Africa).
• My new apartment is next to a busy traffic circle and no one seems to know how it works.

This month's focus

1. Again, capture some value from my car website.

   To me, at this point of the project, this is quite a reasonable and achievable goal. It shouldn't be this difficult. If I can dampen my knee-jerk fear response, I can move past this.

What happens next?

If you're interested in what happens next, I'll email it to you next month.