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Jack Midkiff-REWIRED: a word, an affirmation and a teaching, from a pastor of 27 years, on your phone every morning.

A subscription app for a pastor and life coach who is just starting the coaching side. Every day opens on the scripture and a devotion in Jack's own words, then the affirmation under it, then the teaching video for that day. A live room from Jack's own camera that records itself into the library. Prayer requests only Jack reads. And a dashboard where a whole month is written ahead, one tap per day.

Paid Tuesday 1:13pm, live 2:49pm the same day Logo sent at 1:15pm, the whole look built from it 20 days of devotions written ahead
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Jack Midkiff-REWIRED
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Daily devotionAffirmationsTeaching videosLive roomSubscription
Real screens
The front door: today's scripture reference and title, the JM monogram, and Join the community
The front doorToday's word is on the door before anyone signs in, then the monogram, the name and what is inside. Black, ivory and a hairline of brass, because that is the logo Jack sent.
Today: Philippians 4:8 set large in serif, with the day's affirmation under it
TodayThe scripture, set the way it deserves. Under it, the affirmation for the day, in Jack's own lines.
The devotion for the day in Jack's words, a prayer, and Amen and My notes buttons
The devotionJack's own words for the day, a prayer, and Amen. My notes keeps what the reader wrote. Past days are one tap back.
Teaching: a video card with the Jack Midkiff Podcast art
TeachingEvery message, ready when you are. Paste a link and the card brings its own picture. A teaching can be given a day, and it appears that morning on its own.
The dashboard month: every day with three marks for the devotion, affirmation and teaching
The month, written aheadThree marks under every day: the word, the affirmation, the teaching. Lit means it is set. Tap any day, even three weeks out, and write it.
Sign in: your email is your key, a six digit code by email
Your email is your keyA six digit code by email. Nothing to remember, nothing to reset.
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Open it on your phone. Today's word is on the front door. The rest is for members, and Jack sets the price.

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The challenge
Paid at 1:13pm. Logo sent at 1:15pm. Live at 2:49pm, built from that logo.

Jack has pastored for 27 years and is starting a coaching business on the side. The application came in on a Thursday evening: a place people subscribe to monthly, with teaching videos, daily affirmations, and a daily devotion with a scripture. We talked it through on the Monday morning call and the offer went out at 9:47am.

Tuesday the 18th at 1:13pm it was paid. Two minutes later a logo arrived with the note "this is kind of the aesthetic that I want for the app." A serif monogram on pure black, the name in wide caps between two hairlines. That became the whole app: black, ivory, and a hairline of brass, with the only red anywhere reserved for the dot that means Jack is on air.

At 2:49pm it was live. The daily devotion with scripture, the affirmation, the teaching videos, a live room from Jack's own camera that records itself into the library, and two weeks of sample days so it was not empty on day one. By 4:16pm Jack had already found the dashboard question, and the answer was that all of it is Jack's to write, from the phone, live the second it is saved.

What we built
Deeper than social media lets anyone go.

The daily word

A scripture and a devotion in Jack's own words, every morning, with a prayer and an Amen. Readers keep their own notes on each day and can walk back through past days.

Affirmations and teaching

Short lines that carry all day, under the verse. Teaching videos pasted in as links, each with its own day, so a seven part series goes in one evening and drips out over seven weeks.

The live room

Jack goes on from the phone camera, everyone in the room together, chat beside the picture. Members get an email the moment it starts. The replay files itself into Teaching.

The dashboard

A month at a glance with three marks a day. Write any day ahead, post an affirmation, add a video, go live, read prayer requests, set the price, rewrite the front door. Nothing goes through us.

The signature feature
A month written ahead, one tap per day

Thursday the 20th, Jack asked whether videos could be scheduled the way the scriptures and affirmations already were. An hour and twenty minutes later they could. Every teaching takes a day, stays out of sight until that morning, then appears in Teaching on its own. So the month view shows all three things for every day, the word, the affirmation and the video, and a lit mark means it is set. Today there are 20 days of devotions written ahead, all in Jack's own words, with the sample days long cleared.

Three marks a dayVideos on a scheduleWritten from the phoneLive the second it saves
How it moved
Thursday application, Tuesday app, Tuesday afternoon version two.
6 Aug
Applies Thursday at 6:06pm: a subscription app with teaching videos, daily affirmations and a daily devotion with scripture. Books Monday morning.
10 Aug
9am call. Offer out at 9:47am.
18 Aug
1:13pm: paid. 1:15pm: the logo. 2:49pm: live, the whole look built from it. 4:54pm: the name should be Jack Midkiff. 5:51pm: renamed on every screen and the icon, podcast art on the teaching card, all six dashboard tabs fitting on a phone.
20 Aug
3:27pm: "I'm loving the app so far, very easy for me to use." Can videos be scheduled by day like everything else? 4:47pm: they can.
21 Aug
Review call at 3:30pm. The two setup pages go out after it: Stripe, so Jack gets paid, and the store accounts for Google Play and Apple.
3 Sep
Google Play account set up as the business, with us invited in to publish. Apple under way.
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