paperize

Checkin 6: A Dozen Tiny Steps Forward

Added 2017-09-26 13:01:01 +0000 UTC

I've been working. I've been thinking. I've been researching. And the cycle repeats. Some of the steps forward:

1. Got a business bank account set up, so everything looks nice and legitimate in case anything goes legally sideways before we're ready. And really, who is ever ready? I used Iberia Bank, which I was able to set up entirely online and provides me with free checking.

2. Got approval from Google to log my users in and bang on their Drive and Sheets. This is key! For now, you'll have to use your Google account to log in, your Google Sheets for your game data, and your Drive to save Paperize data across devices (because we're not using a server or a database, remember?)

3. Wrote a privacy policy to get the aforementioned Google approval. I embedded the policy as a Google Doc so I can just update the doc as needed and not have to redeploy. (Side note: the privacy policy is already out of date because I've been removing services left and right!)

4. Made a product roadmap and inserted it into the site using a similar embed trick, this time using GitHub's Gist service. Currently it details the road ahead to finish up Alpha, which just gets the core features in place so we can generate basic game materials from linked spreadsheets.

5. Lots of code refactoring that makes this a very modern web application. I'm targeting the horizon for Paperize, which means adopting a lot of bleeding edge libraries, frameworks, and philosophies (and inventing one or two.) To "skate where the puck is going" takes time.

Stay tuned folks, Alpha Release 2 is getting close!