We believe in adaptability and flexibility. So we have a clear idea where we want to be in 3 months, a plan of where we would like to be in 6 months, and a vision for the next 5 years.

And every 3 months we sit down and re-assess where we want to be in 5 years in order to plan the next 6 months.

This approach ensures everything we release is inline with our users needs.

Goals 2020

Based on user feedback from the initial Alpha testers, and the discussions with Katia from Eagle Dynamics on Microservices we reassessed our roadmap – our conclusions were the following:

1. Leave Microservices aside for the near future and stick to a Monolithical architecture.
   • We had underestimated the complexity of implementing a Microservices architecture – the time it would take to execute, the difficulties we would have in DevOps...
   • Microservices is the right approach but not for us today.
2. Focus on managing & storing Websites you want to keep.
   • One of the biggest problems we encountered in our user interviews was managing websites that you wanted to keep.
   • Users struggled to efficiently store website to access them later on. Whether they were researching their trip to Tibet, vegetarian recipes, information on the Corona Virus, etc... they were unable to efficiently store their results to then access their research at a later date.
   • Users interviewed tackled this problem by using:
     • Bookmarks : Only able to keep website by name, once reached critical number of website was impossible to find anything, impossible to search within websites or to connect them to multiple concepts. Result they stopped using it.
     • Google Drive or Word Document : Created documents where they collated all interesting websites on a specific topic. Very manual, limited functionalities, impossible to search within websites.
     • Pocket : Tool is focused for storing articles / websites you haven't had time to read, so you store them to read them later. Tool wasn't design as a website management tool to find & connect things easily – to store, structure and manage your knowledge gained through online research.

We have a unique opportunity to quickly create a solution using our graph based knowledge management solution that directly tackles a key evident pain point that everyone feels. Regardless of our age, nationality or background we all use the internet to research information.

Whether you are researching recipes, holiday destination, your competitors in the UK for your business, information for your thesis, or which speakers you want to buy... Regardless what our research focus is we all want to efficiently store our research and pages that matter to access it again at a later date, contextualise decisions, or to simply share it with someone.

With Reach users would be able to seamlessly save the websites that matter to them in a powerful interconnected structure where knowledge would never again be lost.

Users would be able to link every website to its relevant context – what is it about, where does it come from, what type of website is it, who sent it to me, where was it saved from, etc... making them instantly findable.

Additionally, users would be able to search within the content of the articles saved, making Reach the Google of your interesting websites.

Our primary objective is to :

<aside> 💡 Launch a new closed Alpha Version of Reach with the core focus on helping users manage the Websites that matter to them + improve the ease of use of the application.

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