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