It's the middle of January 2025, and we have just sent the following email to our members. This is the content of the email, as we want to build in public. Read it and decide whether you also want to join us!

Update on the next steps

Hi!  

Thank you so much for signing up for updates about Healthy Living for Desk Dwellers. After reading this email, you'll be up-to-date about the current state of things. As of now, Healthy Living for Desk Dwellers is still in the "humble beginning" stage. Today, we took the day off from our IT jobs to brainstorm and decide on the next steps.  

We concluded that it's not primarily up to us to decide which exact shape Desk Dwellers is going to take. We envision it as a platform and a community, but we need to validate our vision, as we could be totally wrong!  

As you can imagine, we don't fancy spending lots of time and energy to build a thing that turns out to not resonate with any of the Desk Dwellers. We want it to be actually useful for you, it has to fulfil a need; in the scope of "health".  

Gathering feedback is the logical next step

In order to validate our vision and get a clearer idea of which direction we should go, we need your input. So that will be the next step, gathering feedback, and we're going to do it via this simple medium: email. No fancy tools, just email (although Oliver can tell you a funny story of how annoyingly hard it is to make sure our writing efforts don't end up in your spam box).  

The next update you'll receive from us is the first round of gathering feedback, and it will focus on the following: "What would you like Healthy Living for Desk Dwellers to help you with?".

We'll share the basis of our vision first, and then ask a couple of questions to validate (or invalidate) this vision. You answer those questions by replying to the email, simple as that.  

Following that, we'll ask you questions about how Healthy Living for Desk Dwellers can help you. Then, we'll go into actual health-related stuff. We'll provide a simple model about healthy living, and ask you questions about areas in your life that you would like to pay more attention to in regard to your health.

This already seems enough to start with, and will hopefully yield lots of interesting responses.  

We hope you'll take some time out of your day to give us the gift of your feedback, when the next email lands in your inbox.  

That's it from our side from now! We thank you again for showing your early support, and we sincerely hope you'll come on this ride with us as an active member of the community.

Greetings from behind our desk in Utrecht, the Netherlands,  

Maaike & Oliver

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