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Jordan Young

Jordan Young

Founding Engineer Reflecta
Joined May 2025
Jun 2

Weekly Update: June 1, 2025

North-star metric

  • Getting onboarded users to stick around and continue to use Reflecta.

What did i get done?

  • Onboarded 3 users onto Reflecta, conducted interviews gathering information about their journaling habits and journies
  • Fixed production bugs that arose from onboarding finds
  • Fixes for older browsers in onboarding flows
  • Introduction of new prompts for morning / afternoon cues with different models
  • Injection of userContext field into sage chat, along with progressNote constant regeneration of userContext object

Learnings/New thoughts

  • Confusion points for users on current Reflecta build
  • Features that want to be seen - reminders, afternoon check in, trackers for days journaled, etc
  • Seeing which of the users onboarded enjoy the product the most - who we should be tailoring it for (currently, most active user is one who runs his own business, and already pays for mentorship / coaching)
  • Users seem to want things to do, people enjoying prompts / onboarding but sometimes feel like they don't know what to do after.

What is limiting right now?

  • Balancing production fixes with new features, deciding on what get's priority while users are actively on the product

Goals for this week

  • onboard a few more users, do week check in with ones that have been on for a week now.
  • fix production bugs that have been seen
  • discuss and decide on best morning reflection cue approach.
May 28

Weekly Update: May 26, 2025

North-star metric

  • Getting 10 users that love the product

What did i get done?

  • Lots of backend sage feature upgrades, e.g userContext generation, progressNotes collection, improved prompt modeling
  • Improved handling of scheduled functions to account for users not in eu regions
  • Production ready cleanups throughout application
  • Stripe finishing touches - coupon codes, adaptive pricing, new price for production product
  • Improved sage chat with injection of new userContext
  • Couple of new components for better UI experience

Learnings/New thoughts

  • Using different sources for debugging, e.g. cloud function logs, posthog captures, vercel logs
  • Indexing on fields in new collection - if don't querying works on local but not in live / preview deployment, leading to tough debugging
  • Learning how to prioritize work between bugs, features, database management, etc.

Goals for this week

  • onboard 10 users onto Reflecta
  • clean up any urgent bugs that come out of onboarding sessions
May 19

Weekly Update: May 19, 2025

North-star metric

  • Getting DNS switched over to new vercel build.
  • Reflecta to state where we can once again onboard new users.

What did i get done?

  • Production deployment on vercel with DNS switched over
  • Database / Stripe customer migration scripts for existing users
  • v2 editor changes, especially focused in morning reflection pages

Learnings/New thoughts

  • Using scripts to speed up process of migrations
  • Importance of practicing things on smaller scale in preparation for higher risk operations down the line
  • Looking at design through users perspective, focusing on usability and ease of use without guidance.

Goals for this week

  • fixing remaining bugs in production build (whatsapp reminders, v2 editor bugs, etc)
  • Add onboarding questionnaire prompts to first morning reflection pages for user journaling guidance.
  • creating "chat" breakout session and building prompt for llm around this type.
  • Adding more logging through posthog captures to live build.
  • Scheduling 5 onboarding sessions for the following week