• Alex Standiford

    Well, that was neat. I have a ClickUp integration that I use for an internal task system at Novatorius, but wanted something similar for Trello.

    Claude Code just churned it out flawlessly, given the ClickUp example.

  • Alex Standiford

    Just spent about 5 hours doing discovery work on everything I want to implement in my upcoming Gravity Forms integration with Siren.

    That seems like a lot of time spent not coding, and even though I know better, I was so tempted to just skip this part and get right to coding. I’m really excited to finally break ground on forms plugins because there’s SO much Siren can do with them, so the urge to “get started” was really strong.

    And WOW I’m glad I didn’t make that mistake. As I started researching, peeling back layers, and noting my findings, I discovered so many things that I had not considered in my initial conceptualization of this integration.

    I would have definitely used up more than 5 hours doing rework, or worse yet, I would have written up a bunch of technical debt that would have slowed me down for more integrations in the future.

    This just re-affirms my belief that the best place to start a project is a good ol’ fashioned Google Doc, NOT your code editor.

  • Alex Standiford

    Working on integration pages on Siren’s site today. Glad to finally feel like the site’s foundation is in a good-enough place that I can start honing in these types of pages.

  • Alex Standiford

    Aaaand that’s it! This update is live!

    Siren is all about running more intimate incentive programs, so it just made sense to have this capability baked-in, and I’m really glad it’s here. I’ve already found a couple of situations where I needed to use it.

    Siren 2.1.0 adds some really nice, and highly-requested quality of life changes, and support for crediting collaborators with orders manually.

    Quick down-and-dirty demo:

  • Alex Standiford

    This will also enable you to create orders from integrations, and manually attribute sales. Super handy for sales teams using Siren to manage order attribution.

  • Alex Standiford

    Working on the transaction builder for Siren Affiliates this morning.

  • Alex Standiford

    There’s another nice little upgrade on this transactions screen – you can see the source of the transaction across integrations. I want to do more of these little QOL upgrades in future versions too.

  • Alex Standiford

    This update will add a transactions screen, so you can view existing transactions, add new ones, and credit collaborators with transactions.

    Your programs will automatically apply the appropriate rewards from there.

  • Pruning My Business Back to The Essentials

    Pruning My Business Back to The Essentials

    You can be closing deals, paying people, and still be building the exact business you promised yourself you’d never run again.

  • Alex Standiford

    Dinner is looking like a damn cookbook photo today!

Alex
Alex
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Founder of Novatorius & creator of Siren Affiliates. WordPress engineer and partnership advocate helping businesses grow with flexible incentive programs.

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