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Three things for you this Saturday: a cool way to visualize your year, community-building, and some deals.

📺 How to create a 2022 product plan

Here's how I'm visualizing next year's product calendar for Transistor.fm; organized around "big feature milestones."

The point of this exercise isn't for these plans to be "set in stone." Rather, it's a way of visualizing the year. The point is that this outline is flexible. At the end of each cycle (during the cool down), we'll reassess our priorities, and decide what we want to work on next.

It was inspired by Adam Wathan's episode on Art of Product where he explains how he does Basecamp's Shape Up process:

📑 Here's a Blank Google Sheets template you can use.

✊ Building community is a super power

For me personally, starting MegaMaker (a community for indie makers) is one of the most impactful things I've done. Through the community, me and my members have helped each other build and launch countless projects.

I recently wrote my top tips for building community:

👉 https://meeps.app/newsletter/wncl0t​
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🐥 Good tweets

• 📈 You want markets with high ceilings, momentum, and a proven willingness to pay.
• ⛵ Are you sailing in the right direction?​
• ⎍ CSS for layout, tables... for tabular data.​
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⬛ Black Friday deals

Some deals for you:

• 🎙️ Transistor is having its first ever sale. If you've been thinking about starting a podcast now's a good time! Get 20% off podcast hosting for 1 year when you sign up for an annual plan. Sign up using this link.
• 👩‍💻 Build a business in 2022. Meeps is the best way to create a membership site, member directory, paid newsletter, start a community, or get supporters for your project. Last chance to get the early access deal.

You can also check out these deals from MegaMaker members.

Cheers,
Justin Jackson
​@mijustin​

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