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You have no successes, but you're 100% sure this product will take off like a rocket? That's not the way it works. Most people believe in their product, that's why they develop it and invest the long hours in the first place. However, you're only one person, and until that product sees the light of day and you get real feedback, you're living in a bubble. I did the same thing once, and then never again. I developed a product for a year in my free time. Everything was finished, polished, all the features were fully developed, and it was ready to go. What happened? I 'launched', a handful of users registered, there were a dozen posts, and that was it. Only in that moment, did I realize it wasn't that great of an idea in the first place, and how absurd it was to invest a year of my time before getting feedback from my target audience. What I do now is try to launch asap. I get a rough concept up and running, and launch in a weekend, a week, or a month. I developed one site over the course of 48 hours (from idea to working beta), launched, and it had 2,000 registered users in less than a day. It still failed a year later. I launched another site after a month of development, and that one had 3,000 users the first day, and now it has a million and continues to grow. By not launching, you're wasting time. There's a 95%+ chance the product is going to fail, you'll get a tiny spike of traffic day one from your marketing, and that'll be the most traffic you ever see. That's why you should launch asap. If you invest a few weeks, and it fails, that's great, you proved the idea doesn't work, and you move onto the next. You can launch a dozen products and services in a year this way, identify the failures, and when one appears to gain traction, then you can flesh it out more. I don't think my site had a FAQ until it had 25k+ users, a support section until it had 50k+ users. It didn't get a ToS until it had 500k+ users. Launching is a good way to validate the core idea, before you invest all the time in the extras. |