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Re: Ask HN: Why is nearing completion so demotivating?

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24th of May 2018 might not be the best time to choose to launch anything while intentionally having ditched thinking about your T&Cs and Privacy Policy...

I'd just block Europe instead...

That _helps_, but I'm a British/EU citizen, living in Australia, who regularly VPNs through servers in Singapore, Tokyo, and the US.

I'm still protected by GDPR.

(Personally, I reckon that's quite an overreach by EU lawmakers, but that's what they've chosen to do, in response to equivalent or worse "overreach" by internet companies trading in personal information...)

Re: Ask HN: Why is nearing completion so demotivating?

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Sure, but what should I do about it?

I didn't think google help could do even less but here it is. I ask for help to recover a recipe board from pinterest and get nothing! NOTHING! Don't need to powerwash everything. We need to have a place that shows history and can be repaired if needed. I know this is too untechnical for you people. But KISS should be your guideline.B. Karr. Thanks for nothing AGAIN! 1

Is this a post in the wrong place. Or?

Re: Ask HN: Why is nearing completion so demotivating?

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post #31

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24th of May 2018 might not be the best time to choose to launch anything while intentionally having ditched thinking about your T&Cs and Privacy Policy...

4% of 0 is 0.

It's whichever is larger.

Re: Ask HN: Why is nearing completion so demotivating?

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Do you have a written plan on how you will make money with this - like a business plan? If not, take a day off and work out a complete outline on what you want to achieve and how you will get there. I totally get what you are saying and have been there myself - the development stage is fun, and you avoid / defer marketing tasks because, let's face it most of us HATE that stuff. But if you want to make money, you need…

There is a screenshot or two ( top one is older ) at http://schuwing.com (and an email signup for launch updates).

I do have an example page in the works, with 4 examples so far, of each of the different page-integrations (in page pop-out, scroll, auto-play, etc), and each showcasing a few of the different svg filters.

It's marketed toward professionals, so I'm not in the game of taking non-creative people and "giving them a creative outlet". It should help with real world animated web tasks, and I had some experience with that in my freelancing. I'll probably have some pricing tiers, but probably something like $29/month, 59, 149, with higher tiers being more support.

For marketing, besides doing tutorials and buying ads on youtube, I can reach out to people w/ existing "how-to design" blogs, and share revenue with them (recurring), to keep their watchers using the software. Then reaching out to companies, even cold-calling if it proves cost effective.

I just have a bunch of polish to iron out. If I release it with bugs, and those bugs end up causing people to lose work (ie work for an hour without saving, and then a breaking bug causes you to lose work), I might lose those customers forever, so I'm stuck ironing those out for now.

It's getting really close though, and it seems like the closer it gets, even though I have figured out some possible ways forward for marketing, the less motivated I am.

I think I have to admit that in some ways I was, and really liked, chasing a fantasy, and I don't know how to chase now that it's more real. The hunger is what I'm lacking, in a way I feel full.

Re: Ask HN: Why is nearing completion so demotivating?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't think google help could do even less but here it is. I ask for help to recover a recipe board from pinterest and get nothing! NOTHING! Don't need to powerwash everything. We need to have a place that shows history and can be repaired if needed. I know this is too untechnical for you people. But KISS should be your guideline.B. Karr. Thanks for nothing AGAIN! 1

Is this a post in the wrong place. Or?

I'm so confused.. is he saying I should google it? Or is that a bot? It has a green name.

Re: Ask HN: Why is nearing completion so demotivating?

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post #25

There is a required shift in mentality that you are due. Its like when you're in love, at first you can survive on romance, but to survive a marriage, there is a necessary shift into the long term mentality. You've romanced your way to a product, but haven't considered the long term of it yet. In the future, it would help to have some long term thinking earlier on, so you can plan for various things and not have a st…

Like switching from growing something to not letting it die? Maybe that's not quite articulated right.. but yea, some sort of shift in mentality..

Re: Ask HN: Why is nearing completion so demotivating?

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post #32

I'm currently in a somewhat similar situation, although with a smaller open source project, and that's exactly what I've been struggling with the last few weeks. There are some great points in the comments here, here are my 2 cents and what I'm currently doing. Like someone here said already - the second 90% are no fun. The first 90% are fun, launching is fun, people using and loving your software is fun and eventual…

> shipping is a feature. It's your most essential feature. Very true. It's a feature, but I think I've been looking at it as a liability.

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