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Job Market Blues

Not blues, really, but yeah it's sort of a shit show in the tech world right now. I'm going to take a pause on applying for product jobs, feels like a waste of time. I think right now I just need to enjoy where I am in life. I'm expanding this pretty cool app, I have ideas to keep it going... in the meantime maybe I'll find minimal part time work.

The Uke app is doing reallly well, especially considering I have done minimal to no marketing. I am holding back on marketing still because I want everything to look consistent. I want the guitar apps to have the same design. I need all the screenshots on the app stores to look good. I want to publish the plus version of the Uke app. Oh wow the metronome wasn't even clickable on the first version of the uke app and I'm so grateful someone on Facebook called that out.

I think once Uke Plus is published, that's when I'll feel ready to start marketing the Uke app. By then, hopefully, my designs will be consistent on all of the apps. 

I'm thinking about the future and this is what I want in the next year for Rukus:

- A Bass version
- Lefty version for all apps (this might take more than a year? we'll see)
- A way to save chord playlists.
- A youtube channel 

Here are some nice to haves:

- In the settings, a toggle where you can turn on the sounds of the chords so people can hear what they sound like and compare.

- A better metronome 

-  A tuner

 Not sure if I could add those things in but I definitely don't have the time or brainpower with everything on my plate right now. My capacity is design, and that alone is a pretty steep task. 

Talking to my good friend Mark tonight, I realize that the time I had to build the app was the perfect window in my life to do something like that. Until my babe is in school, and who knows what life will be like in the next few years, I would have never had the time to sit and CODE with a toddler. Holy shit. I mean, I had to take a 6 month break when she started to walk! It's a fuckin' LOT! And thinking about finding a full time tech job? After she's spent her whole life with me spending every waking moment with her? I feel like if I were a working mom when she was 4/5 months, acclimated to having sitters, then it wouldn't be a big deal... but I so much as step out of a room and it's a nightmare for her. Fuck I think I would cry if I got a big girl job right now. SO yeah. I think this is the vision. Keep appin'. Keep enjoying it. Find a little bit of pocket change here and there.... and enjoy this amazing part of her life. It's such a privilege for me to be able to stay at home with her right now. I have the front seat to her development. I can't give that up. 

Thanks for tuning in, void. 

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