16-29 May: Gearing up for some upcoming competitions

CaseCrest

This fortnight added a lot of product depth across both sides of the marketplace. Student discovery improved through jobs and public pages, while hosts gained better scheduling, analytics, exports and competition management controls.

Product

• Fixed registration exports, admin registrations and invite RPC reliability.
• Shipped a large jobs/SEO/registration update with richer role details, filters, public pages and hybrid competition locations. (lots more to build upon here)
• Added portfolio public profiles and verified submissions. (some bugs to iron out here)
• Improved job/role discovery sorting, cards and detail pages.
• Added presentation scheduling with team/admin presentation pages, auto-assignment and notifications. (scrapped legacy - will be replaced)
• Added reminders, winner emails, idempotent submissions, key-date extensions and submission reopening.
• Improved timezone defaults, public asset routes, slug redirects, admin completion state, structure reordering and submission export/download names.
• Refined host upload flows and submission actions with supporting tests/fixes.

GTM and operations

The outreach list for the team was completed, a new sales deck needs to be created as this ends up constatnly changing due to our product development pace but the core value props are something persistent.

The main lesson was that progress was happening, but tracking and focus still needed to improve so all our effort is translated into clearer outcomes.

Next

June is about strategic projects, better software quality, a much larger marketing push and user testing.