SUMMARY
The meeting reviewed SideHustleDBL platform progress alongside member venture updates and next-step planning. Confirmed updates included Mark’s platform demo and roadmap work, Kim’s early women’s-circle concept, Marcus’s gardening-app testing and marketing experiments, and Vaughn’s new client engagement. The group also identified near-term constraints around limited availability and unresolved platform and monetization decisions, while outlining what each person plans to validate or build next.
- Mark walked through the platform demo and discussed the roadmap, including the AI catalog, prompts library, coaching recordings, Ask the AI Assistant, business-plan workflows, launch plans, budget tracking, and calendar integration.
- Kim’s women’s-circle idea was framed as the leading concept to validate first, with the group discussing community, support, wellness, and a structure that could create deeper relationships before any workshops, podcast, or other extensions.
- Marcus reported limited traction for the California-native gardening app pilot and is refining paid and organic marketing, while weighing early access, advice, nursery, seed, and premium-service partnership models.
- Vaughn is moving into a new client engagement with Heds Fund after completing the legal and operational setup, and he is also validating a separate idea with the goal of productizing or diversifying the service over the next year.
RECORDING
ACTION ITEMS
- Planned follow-up: continue planning calendar integration so weekly launch-plan actions appear on users’ phones with scheduled times and durations.
Kim
- Create the women’s-circle idea in the platform and begin developing its business plan before the next meeting.
Marcus
- Launch the California-native gardening app ad campaign on Facebook and Instagram after refining the creative and adding UTM tracking.
- Meet with at least one boutique gardener to evaluate a premium customized-app partnership model.
Vaughn
- Finalize the business plan and migrate it into the launch plan to create a working schedule while continuing toward productizing or diversifying the service over the year.
Jessie
- Finish the business plan and move into launch mode.