October 2024: The Grind

This was a month of lots of hard work across all my projects.

Campfire

Unfortunately, The World of Tea Princess Chronicles didn't do as well as we hoped. We are however comfortably profitable, and will finish the year with reasonable growth from 2023. I'm now hard at work on The House Witch, which should launch in December or January:

In October we finalized the 2025 plan. It's only missing some detail on marketing tactics for special edition novels, but the rest is all there and good to go. I'm happy with it and looking forward to the year ahead!

We also made some changes to the short term plan which added a ton of work on my shoulders—the goal is to update our publishing platform to support a cart & wallet system, plus the ability to buy books as a gift for others, all by the end of the year. The backend and web front-end of that is all on me, so I've been slammed.

In the meantime I'm also trying to onboard an author with an astounding 74 titles onto Campfire, which I'm excited to share more about soon.

Trophy

My co-founder at Trophy came to visit me in Poznan this month, and we had a good time and made lots of progress on the product, which is finally ready for prime time: trophy.so. Many late nights were put in, and I'm hopeful we can get our first non-Campfire customer in November.

Startup Poznan

We hosted another meetup in October which went well—more people and a lively discussion. I also attended another startup group in Poznan's meetup (the first in many years, and inspired by ours). It wasn't really my style. A formal speaker, formal plan, no time to just shoot the shit and talk shop.

Startup Poznan is better 😎

Plans for November

• Finish carts/wallets/book gifting update for Campfire
• Publish RJ Blain's 74 titles on Campfire
• Make progress on The House Witch
• Get our first real Trophy customer
• Host another Startup Poznan meetup
• Fly to Portugal, back to Poland, to the USA, and back to Poland
• Enjoy Thanksgiving with family