A series

After chapter one

Chapter one went out as a test. These are the lessons from what came after: listening to the people who watch, deciding what's worth doing, and building the checks that let one person keep up.

1. 一 Ship it to real people Chapter one went out as a test, and the people who watched it changed the product three times: a version of the story they could follow, pictures that are actually real, and episodes instead of chapters. Here's what building around the people who use the thing looked like.
2. 二 One list for everything The 白话 version of MoVox was a one-to-two-week job, text and audio only. It took four, and it came back with photoreal clips and lip-sync. Here's the sprint rule I've taught teams for years, and how I caught myself running it on a project of one.
3. 三 Stop being the check For two chapters I reviewed every picture by eye, and every flag got fixed by hand. By the end there were 136 hand fixes, and the next chapter would need them all again. Here's why a fix that never reaches the process gets made twice, and what moving it there actually took.

More parts are on the way.