1. • Cushion Restructuring the individual project page

   • Cushion Project blocks

   • Cushion Redesigning the homepage

   • Cushion Multiple timelines

   • Cushion Archiving and estimate differences

   • Cushion Multiple financial goals

   • Cushion Zooming in on the timeline

   • Cushion Currency

   • Cushion Preferences, accounts, and typeface change

   • Cushion Sending out the first email

   • Cushion Currency inputs, notifications, and invoice nets

   • Cushion Dots and lines

   • Cushion Calculating in the database and revealing tendencies

   • Cushion Improved form UX

   • Cushion Cushion is online

   • Cushion Schedule timeline patterns

   • Cushion A slimmer schedule timeline

   • Cushion The schedule timeline

   • Cushion Plugging in real data for the first time

   • Cushion Transitions and project lists

   • Cushion Death to modals

   • Cushion The individual project page

   • Cushion Estimated incomes and talks with other freelancers

   • Cushion Statuses to lists and the paid beta

   • Cushion The timeline

   • Cushion Invoice terminology

   • Cushion Modal forms

   • Cushion Wiring the backend to the frontend

   • Cushion Balancing design and dev

   • Cushion Timecop, Monocle, and Vagrant

   • Cushion Going with Ruby and Sinatra

   • Cushion Ditching local-first and trying out Node.js

   • Cushion Switching to AngularJS

   • Cushion Building the Table with Vue.js

   • Cushion Clients, Projects, and Invoices

   • Cushion Introduction (to the Cushion journal)

   • Cushion Cushion

   2014

2. • Cushion Retention through useful features

   • Cushion The onboarding checklist

   • Cushion Spreading the word

   • Cushion From beta to launch - the subdomain

   • Cushion From beta to launch - sign up

   • Cushion From beta to launch - messaging

   • Cushion Launch

   • Cushion Authenticating with 3rd party services

   • Cushion Intro to integrations

   • Cushion Inspiration vs imitation

   • Cushion The emotional rollercoaster

   • Cushion Designing project blocks

   • Cushion Everything in increments

   • Cushion Deleting your account

   • Cushion Designing the subscription page

   • Cushion Rewriting the timeline

   2015

3. • Cushion Funding Cushion

   • Cushion Hiring a team of freelancers

   • Cushion Taking a real break from work

   • Cushion Slack as a notification center

   • Cushion Document your features

   • Cushion 300

   • Cushion Vacations

   • Cushion Offering discounts

   • Cushion Waves of traffic

   • Cushion Less blogging, more journaling

   2016

4. • Cushion My typical week as a founder

   • Cushion Building components in a sandbox

   • Cushion Reactive time with Vue.js

   • Cushion Visualizing daylight saving time

   • Cushion Recording screencast GIFs

   • Cushion Writing a job listing

   • Cushion Using feature flags to run betas

   • Cushion Our first company lunch

   • Cushion How to embed Vue.js & Vuex inside an AngularJS app... wait what?

   2017

5. • Cushion The “Update Available” alert

   • Cushion Improving readability with bigger fonts and higher contrast

   • Cushion My design workflow

   • Cushion Simplifying our build process and SSL with Cloudfront

   • Cushion Restructuring an evolving app

   2018

6. • Cushion Responsive images for different layouts

     While building Cushion’s new homepage, I go the extra mile to swap out better-fitting images for different breakpoints.

   • Cushion A flexible way of using Nuxt.js with Contentful CMS

     After migrating Cushion’s changelog to Contentful, I move onto the homepage, where I narrow in on an approach to compose pages entirely in the CMS.

   • Cushion Migrating the changelog to the Contentful CMS

     In my initial step towards migrating Cushion’s marketing site to Contentful, I start with the changelog.

   • Cushion Promoting invoicing to the main nav

     I reworked the main nav to include invoicing, which was met with a wave of thanks from users.

   • Cushion The next big rocks

     After launching Cushion’s new onboarding, I detail the next few items on my to-do list, which for once are not new features.

   • Cushion Onboarding is live

     A weekend turned into a month, but Cushion’s new onboarding is finally live. Instead of focusing on the launch itself, I talk through my favorite part.

   • Cushion Composable onboarding

     To provide a more pleasant codebase for Future Jonnie to inherit, I restructure the onboarding to be composable and easily testable.

   • Cushion Writing my own utility methods

     I decide to write a few utility methods myself, rather than relying on 3rd party library, and I’m glad I do.

   • Cushion Using a utility library vs building my own

     Torn between adding a dependency for a utility method or writing it myself, I talk through the pros and cons of both approaches.

   • Cushion A reminder to write

     Determined to launch thew onboarding flow, I forgot to write for a week and it shows.

   • Cushion The date picker component

     Continuing my work on Cushion’s onboarding flow, I build a new and improved date picker component.

   • Cushion Building components for the long run

     With my recent work on Cushion’s new onboarding flow, I take a meandering walk through the new components I built for it that are all typed and tested.

   • Cushion Investigating inflection points

     Stepping back to look at Cushion’s growth over its entire lifetime reveals a crystal clear moment when everything went south.

   • Cushion Recalibrating my estimates

     I start working on the new onboarding flow, but quickly realize it won’t be a weekend project.

   • Cushion A friendly onboarding flow

     As a first stab at onboarding, I design a flow that includes myself asking questions, which hopefully provides a friendly intro to the app.

   • Cushion Bringing back onboarding

     In an attempt to ease people into the app rather than pushing them out of the airplane, I decide to bring back a proper onboarding flow.

   • Cushion Rough sketches

     After feeling reluctant to reveal any design progress, I decide to bite the bullet and share a few rough sketches—no matter how uncomfortable it feels.

   • Cushion Flattening the nav

     Continuing the idea of the single click, I talk through a potential path to flattening the nav from multiple layers down to one.

   • Cushion Well, this is embarrassing

     Browsing through Cushion, I realize something strange. As I troubleshoot the anomaly, I discover an embarrassing truth.

   • Cushion Sending newsletters again

     I sent my first Cushion newsletter in over a year and a half, which sounds crazy, but nonetheless, it feels great to send them again.

   • Cushion Validating assumptions

     Before diving into analytics, I decide to spend time writing database queries that could validate some of my assumptions using existing data.

   • Cushion Intentional analytics

     After building Cushion so far based purely on assumptions and intuition, I finally start to think about using analytics to help guide me.

   • Cushion This app has good bones

     A thought-provoking conversation leads me to realize that Cushion is still solid and worth iterating on, instead of restarting from scratch.

   • Cushion Keeping API requests simple

     After establishing a new guiding principle to keep API requests simple, I describe how I could refactor a complex view that relies on a heavy API request.

   • Cushion A single click

     I discuss a pain point in the current Cushion involving the number of clicks it takes to get to where you need to go. What if it only took one?

   • Cushion Shaping Vuex through testing

   • Cushion Excluding a folder from VSCode’s search (and disabling Jest’s generated coverage reports)

   • Cushion Retaining state with the router in a single page application

   • Cushion Custom focus rings using :focus-within

   • Cushion Testing v-on="$listeners" in Vue.js

   • Cushion Vue + ESLint + Prettier conflicts

   • Cushion Speeding up Jest tests with --runInBand

   • Cushion Moving the Cushion Journal to my blog

   • Cushion Updating Sentry

   • Cushion Updating Skylight and dealing with ActiveSupport

   • Cushion Reducing Heroku CI time by 35% for an extra penny

   • Cushion The build failed, but I swear it wasn’t me

   • Cushion A hiccup with subdomain routing

   • Cushion Upgrading to Ruby 2.7.1

   • Cushion QA’ing pull requests using Heroku Review Apps

   • Cushion Subdomain routing in Sinatra

   • Cushion Redirecting the Heroku “Open app” button to a custom domain

   • Cushion Reloading Ruby with Sinatra::Reloader

   • Cushion Exploring a modern Cushion

   • Cushion Migrating the Cushion website to S3 to avoid dealing with SSL

   2020