MVP launch week stand up #3
So there are a few things I've learned this week.
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Prior to actually launching an MVP, one should get all of their marketing, methods of announcement etc sorted out and tested to verify they work before launch day.
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Being listed on HN does not necessitate that you will have so much traffic that our server/host will burst into flames from all the packets flying by.
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See steps 1 and 2.
This has been a rather slow launch. Granted it is also my first.
I'm still excited that this can take off, but it isn't having the pomp and circumstance that I suppose I was dreaming for.
I have communicated closely with my first beta tester.
Hopefully, more will come along, perhaps some paying clients as well.
I hope all is going well for everyone else out there. And good luck.
Great work @djronin47! And look at slow launch as a possibility to figure out and fix issues with a small audience, before people rush in. You would be able to talk to all your customers in person, think about that!
Thanks for that perspective. Hadn't that about it from that view prior.
Definitely helps take away a little bit of the minor disappointment from the slow traffic I've had this week.
Now I just have to among other things get the Twitter account I setup specifically for use with the service.
I had not used it prior to the launch.
Twitter is quite slow to respond to such things. I'm sure everything going on takes precedence, and rightly so.
Of course, you need to do a million other things :-)
And twitter, like everything else, takes time to ramp up. Just keep doing it, and I'm sure it will work.
I'm literally in the same boat, and it's painful how slow things are. But you never know until you try, right?
I just checked out your site. Good luck in getting things going more.
I guess it can be harder for people like us, at least from what I'm reading between the lines, working for others developing software/businesses etc, however, when we go to do it ourselves, we expect it to take off more.
I know it is also difficult for me, as while this is my first software/service MVP, it is not my first business, though my last was as an IT consultant, and that business eventually failed for various reasons.
Though I suppose all things, including services/software etc take time and effort to get anywhere, Rome wasn't built in a day.