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You are motivated to get a lot of bang for the buck. While the derivative of your function is high, you’re feeling you are making “great progress”.
Then the thing decelerates and now you have a lot of niggling details to iron out. Each one takes a while.
You look around and see that other problems have higher BANG to BUCK ratio. You naturally want to do those.
Remember to land the plane man (or woman) !
It’s the 80/20 Pareto principle. The last 20% of the work feels like 80% of it. And honestly, maybe it is. Have you considered that maybe you aren’t as close to the end as you think? Often that last 20% doesn’t contain any major challenges, but rather a mountain of small and tedious tasks that you’ve “left til later” throughout the project. So although it feels like you’re almost finished, because you’ve eliminated a…
This is somewhat on topic but people may consider it unrelated. There is a business book that explains the disconnect between many people who say they want to start a business but only focus on the task that they're good at. One of the premise inside the book was that a baker started a bakery and ended up only baking and leaving all of the managing and appointment making to her employees. All of the employees quit an…
There are a few things that I've found that help me in these situations:
- Get a good project management software, personally i use https://monday.com/ for small project task management, you can list all the things you need to do - and seeing the tasks slowly disappearing can help get that feeling of momentum back
- Get a cofounder/help finding someone else to be passionate about your project or help with the work often will help spark more of that early stage excitement again. I'm currently working with some contractors on my own project and their excitement helps motivate me to push though these 'work stitches'.
- Take a small break, not too long, any longer than a week or two and you can distance yourself too much.
What you need to remember is that you're attempting to pull something off that very few people actually do, building and launching a company from scratch. It _is_ a-lot of effort, but as a founder and as it gets traction you can start to hire into roles which you don't like/don't care for.
Good luck with your software!
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4% of 0 is 0.
Sure, and I know it's mostly scaremongering, but "4% of zero, or 'up to 20 million euros'" is up to 20 million euros. A better motivator, in my opinion, is that disclosing up front what data you're going to capture, and what you're going to do with it, and obtaining consent for that from users - is "the right thing to do". Unless your business model is "fucking over the users", those are not scary things to do, and w…
Stick with it, and ship. Shipping is a drug. You will level up to really be in the driver's seat.