Is this the wrong platform?
I’m often asked what the best platform or tool is for a workflow or business, and as a Tech Minimalist, I get to work to find the simplest, easiest to use (for my clients and myself) and most cost-effective solution possible.
Today I tweeted about the platform I use for the MacJunky Dojo because I was happy and proud of what I could do with it, however, someone wasn't so impressed (constructive criticism) so I thought I’d reply and address this in video form.
Transcript
I'll ask a from Mike junkie welcome to
the dojo what I want to talk to you
today is about choosing the right tool
now obviously I talk about this all the
time however I posted the dojo is new if
you go to dojo mech junkie calm it's
actually a new thing that I built and
released yesterday and before I released
it I was I checked out the software to
figure out if it would work for you guys
and obviously how easy it is for me you
know when I try to find tools and try to
whether it's for me or for my clients I
am like a pitbull I go in and really
search for the bugs for the issues for
the anything that isn't gonna work
basically and the platform that I'm
using for my dojo is actually a company
called podía now it's a small company
but I have loads of clients yeah it's a
it's a startup I guess I've been going
through
Spencer's tweets and his background and
everything I Spencer and I liked what I
saw and I do that quite a lot with a lot
of the tools that I use so I only
recommend tools that I use and I like
now why am I talking about this well
there I said a sent off a tweet earlier
today because I'm quite impressed with
podía I put it up here pretty impressed
with podia I've built it within a day
obviously I checked it out more than a
day a creative free course within a few
hours now it's not quite a light or
white light I had a Mac tips email
sequence which I turned into a course
and I added a few more things on to it
and at the time I
eleven signups right now I've had now
since they're actually but now I have 23
customers 23 22 one of them is wolf
which is my testing account so 22 within
a day or so which I'm really really
pleased about so the the software seems
you know does work not seems to work
does work and it works really well there
are as I said some bugs there are some
design issues there are some things I
can't figure out both silly it's the new
year so I can't really contact them
they're not around right now so I will
be talking to them about that but it's
not an issue for the client to actually
you know get the tutorials and stuff
that the course is sorry sorry and it
and it's really easy for me however once
I posted there I forgot about it I went
back to Twitter and then I got a reply
where's the reply where is the reply
this is the reply from a guy called
Steven Pratley who's in the UK I think
yeah this is the Deaf's now for so many
online instructors okay my ears pricked
up because I'm I'm becoming an online
instructor but I'm not really an online
instructor assumes at all for an MVP is
the one that will support a sustainable
business I kind of got to agree with
that assuming I didn't assume anything
and I'll get to that in a moment
judgment based on ease of the business
not efficiency for the customer and I
can't agree with that because as I said
I go and check my the software that I
use and see now the first thing I do I'm
a technical analyst for goodness sake
the first thing I do is to see how easy
it is for my customers oh he go to my
website Matt junkie.com
you can't get any more simpler than that
so I try to make sure everything is
as simple as possible for my clients and
obviously is easy it is for me because
I'm lazy and I want to make things
really really simple so I don't agree
with that so you know my reply basically
was not sure if I agree this is just
another avenue for my business because
I'm a tech medalist I'm an Apple IT
consultant I'm a coach so on and so
forth and I have a bunch of clients I've
been in the business for 25 years and
going strong so going into another
branch without affecting my bottom line
can be only be a good thing okay so the
point here is I'm not playing all my
eggs in this basket this is just another
feature for Mac junkie for my clients of
Mac junkie and often in new clients as
well yes of course I'm going to be
creating courses and the reason why I'm
creating courses is because I get asked
the same questions over and over and
over again and so I created the Mac tips
and I want to be able to create those
into courses of course I'm going to be
charging for them because it does cost
money but the point is that I'm not
making it any difficult for anybody now
if I go to Stephens tweets I understand
where he's coming from he's obviously
trying to help online instructors and so
on but I don't think in this instance he
understands what I'm going through now
he might have used my tweet to tweet out
to people look this is what could happen
but it I don't think it affects me in
fact I'm pretty certain it doesn't
affect me now he does have some courses
some free freebies there I've got to be
honest these two things that you see of
freebies and going to his website
yeah it's he's talking are you
struggling to create profits from online
course so he this is what he does so I
I'm not seeing it as an attack but I
just wanted a cover
it for myself actually and this is kind
of a reply to Stephen as well that I I'm
pretty certain it's not going to affect
me I know that there are a lot of ways
that you can deliver courses out there
and I've gone through all of them and
the one I chose I found to be the better
one at the moment for me it's just the
way it is so yeah I enjoy it
so anyway going back to talking about
that I tested it out of so I created a
test account for myself under Wolf's
name and you know if you if you look at
this it looks great this is the dojo
this is these are going to be the
products that you have bought or signed
up for and obviously there's only one
right now and if you and if I've created
courses that you haven't subscribed to
they'll be underneath that if you go
into the course it starts with the first
section and I think you can change that
to have like a welcome thing and these
are the different sections and the
courses in between so you know Oh see
there's or there's a dashboard as well
you can go into your account and change
all the details there yes that's not
that's Wolf's email and that is my
address which is actually on my website
you could change the billing I will
probably be doing a video of podía if
you guys are interested so let me know
but anyway that's the video for today
it's a bit of a long one but I just
wanted to reply to Stephens tweet about
it did I don't think I'm sure it's not
going to affect me I understand where
the tweet is coming from because there
are a lot of people who do pick the lot
of wrong tools I'm in this business as
well I make sure that people choose the
right tools for the right job and making
it easier in my industry making easier
for yourself to be able to work well and
efficiently so you can help your clients
make their life easier anyway
it's a longer video that's the video
have a great day I'll see you tomorrow
and keep it simple bye bye