Whenever you attempt to build something good, there’s that pivotal moment when you’re just about to ship that’s equal parts humbling and nerve wracking.
It is the moment when you hand over what you’ve built to your users for their judgment and just say – “Here, we made this. We hope you find it useful.”
It almost doesn’t matter how much user validation you’ve done prior. You just find yourself wondering if the trade-offs you made for this first version were the right ones. You hope the good outweighs the issues (for there always are issues).
How it pans out matters in the short-run. It decides the fate of teams and even whole companies, adds or removes career significant momentum, and so on.
In the long run however, it matters most that we just keep at it and keep improving our process.
Keep shipping, and keep getting better at how we ship.
In time, we’ll develop the taste and ability to make better things.
