Yesterday evening, I sent the invites to all my friends for the soft beta launch of CabEasy.com. And I was a bit scared to do it. The site is not perfect, and of course will never be. It will require continuous improvements and innovations. That’s normal.
However, I am a perfectionist. Over the last 2 years, I spent a big amount of time (and worries, and money, and sweat, …) working on another project always thinking that it was not good enough for shipping. And, eventually, it never shipped. We faced other blocking problems that we could not overcome, and our perfectionism was not a showstopper, but the feeling that “it’s not ready enough” was always present.
I am a perfectionist, and I learned from my mistake.
When I started working on CabEasy.com, I promissed myself a few things:
- Fix problems often, release often,
- Improve according to feedbacks,
- Don’t try to have the perfect documents to launch an action - once you think you’re good to go, launch the action and then prepare,
- When you feel you’re ready, give yourself an additional day as security and, if there is no the-world-is-falling-appart type of problem, launch every new release.
Preparing to ship your product is like showing your paintings at an exhibit, your short film at a festival, getting on the stage and performing your music: you will be judged. It hasn’t begun yet, and hopefully I’ll get some coverage in December already, but it will happen and it’s exciting and scary.
There are a bunch of other things that I tried to set as guideline for this new venture, and I will sum them up this week end.
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