Re:Ask HN: What do founders spend their time on, after their...
by swombat on Sunday November 08, 2009 @01:06PM
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Those cocktails on the beach don't drink themselves!
After the launch is hell on earth, if you're lucky. A million things are happening at once, you find out all sorts of stuff you missed, you learn about all those bugs you didn't catch earlier, feature requests come piling in, angry or elated customers or users contact you, people get in touch about working together, deals, opportunities, possibilities, the air is pregnant with possibility, electrified like the centre of a thunderstorm, things just KEEP HAPPENING faster than you can keep up with them (you learn to prioritise real good, too), etc, etc, etc
That's if you're lucky. If you're unlucky, then you have the other kind of hell, the frozen wasteland where nothing happens and you can't make anyone care about your product no matter what you do.
After the launch is hell on earth, if you're lucky. A million things are happening at once, you find out all sorts of stuff you missed, you learn about all those bugs you didn't catch earlier, feature requests come piling in, angry or elated customers or users contact you, people get in touch about working together, deals, opportunities, possibilities, the air is pregnant with possibility, electrified like the centre of a thunderstorm, things just KEEP HAPPENING faster than you can keep up with them (you learn to prioritise real good, too), etc, etc, etc
That's if you're lucky. If you're unlucky, then you have the other kind of hell, the frozen wasteland where nothing happens and you can't make anyone care about your product no matter what you do.
I prefer the first kind.