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Week 2 of 6: Circling back to one of my first projects, and making it better.
Gabriel Maldonado
May 11, 2025
As continuation of my previous post, this is week 2/6 of circling back to one of my first projects, and making it better. Some context:
I’ve recently read ShapeUp, a small book about shipping work that matters. This sort of shaped the strategy I want to follow for the next months, which is to circle back to some of the projects that I’ve launched recently, way too fast, which are not providing enough value.
One of my first projects was MoodToPlay, a indie game repository where you can find which game to play based on your mood, and if you’re a game developer yourself, you should be able to use different marketing and promotion tools to improve your game visibility, and ultimately generate more wish lists.
Apart from squeezing an hour or two every day after work, I had a day off as well this week due National Holiday, so I could push a bit further the MVP. Among other changes:
Added AI content generation options, and templates
Added multiple categories
Added credit system for AI features (pay as you go)
Added queue to submit content as blog posts (long content) or X updates (short content)
Added video submissions
Added ~20 new games to the DB
Added a games watchlist
Added basic utm sources for analytics, and added PostHog
UI and DB updates here and there
So far I continued with Supabase as the DB and small edge functions here and there , if this kicks off let’s see how it scales, or if I have to move some stuff to DigitalOcean, AWS, CloudFlare or somewhere else.
The basic MVP is more or less ready for beta testing, so I’ll be setting up some CRM, automations, and reaching folks here and there next week, start to fix flows, bugs, and address feedback requests.
There’s 4 weeks left for this “cycle” to finish, so I’m pretty excited to see how it works out since generally at this point I would be jumping to the next project already.
If you happen to have a game on Steam, or just want to play something nice, check MoodToPlay!
Until next one!
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