🦄 First User Fridays - "I wasn't meant to launch today, but now I have no choice 🤷"
The story of how even a well planned launch can go wrong with one miscalculation.
You read that right, I wasn't supposed to launch W3Design today, here's what happened…
On Saturday Dec 7, I broke down which sites I should launch on and launched the day of on each one, with the last one on my list being ProductHunt. So, I finally prepped my PH checklist and scheduled it for today... BUUUT, I got a really intense stomach flu yesterday.
Knowing that I still had to prep the emails to send out to newsletter subscribers, messages for various Slack and Discord channels, and figure out what to say to people in my Twitter DMs, I rescheduled the launch two days more on Wed, Dec 11 to make sure the launch went perfect. Which I guess is never the case.
So yesterday in a stuper and having drunk 6 tablets of Tums, I pulled out my phone, went to ProductHunt and rescheduled the launch 2 more days and thought I still had time to prep everything.
Just now after having woken up from a nap with a splitting headache (cause' I'm still sick), I checked my email and saw "Lif off!” in a subject line, confused I looked at the sender and there it was “from ProductHunt”. I thought to myself “Oh no..”.
It continued “Congrats! W3Design is live.", I thought to myself how stupid that I must've not rescheduled it properly... I maybe didn’t save it, there might’ve been a network issue, or maybe it’s on ProductHunt end that there was a bug??
Going through the choices in my head I had two main ones:
1. Cancel the launch and reschedule it again.
2. Go on with the launch, full force.
I went with the latter, because even with a perfect launch I doubt that it’s the be-all end-all of a product’s life-span. I think that I have a good product where someone has already actually subscribed to. So f** it, not every launch is perfect and we have to jump into the abyss to see what’s beyond.
And hey I could maybe use this as a hook for announcing the launch like what I’m doing here! 😂
So here's my official First User Friday launch post. Hope for your kind support everyone, cause' I wasn't meant to launch today, but now I have no choice. 🤷
Link to launch: W3design Launch on ProductHunt 🚀