Bob

This is really great! You should write up a post about how you approached it and were able to do it in only 48 hours! great work!

I wrote this to solve my growing frustration with dealing with having so many open tabs!

I started playing around with this and like it already. The simplicity and ease of use are great!

yesterday

any meeting that is an outward bound update can be reduced but email itself may be the wrong option. Any meeting that requires discussion should not be on email either as that increases the load on everyone to monitor the threads and spliced conversations. There are better alternatives to meetings than email such as slack, or other group forums.

It really depends upon what your product is. If the technology itself is the differentiator, then yes, you likely need to be fairly proficient.

There is nothing that will beat speaking to your potential customers directly to discover their needs. You may have a hypothesis of what you want based on your own needs, but you should conduct some research with users to validate.

A couple things worked for me. 1) I create short time boxed windows for doing work. Even 15 min is enough. Then 2) create specific tasks to do the things you use for procrastinating and time box them too. E.g. '20 facebook/instagram surfing'. '15 min bathroom cleanup' -- I tend to 'clean' my apartment whenever i procrastinate! so I basically let myself oscillate between time boxed activities of...

If your old one doesn't have a strong following that matches the one you want, I would suggest to create a new one. Think through the overall brand and image you want the new one to have and then start following and engaging with people in the same areas. Set out to add value and learn vs setting out to create a following. The followers will come.