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Are you me? Programming feels like productive work, and indeed it is, up until just about the point you are at. Now it is not productive work any more, in fac
by hoodoof 8y ago
Are you me?
Programming feels like productive work, and indeed it is, up until just about the point you are at. Now it is not productive work any more, in fact, once the product is finished, programming is counter productive work. Other things need to be done and you don't know how to do them and if you do, are not in the habit of doing them. IOt is easy to get up in the morning and write code, harder to do unfamiliar things.
--> self sabotage (deeply seated need to actually not succeed)
--> fear of the unknown
--> avoidance of a change in work habit - from programming to...... ? what does one do post launch
--> fear of the likely outcome which is zero feedback, zero users
Curious - how close are you to launch, what remains to be done, and what does the software actually do?
Can I suggest perhaps be really ruthless about the remaining tasks - likely many of those launch tasks just are not important, even though the completionist in you thinks they are. For example - terms and conditions document? Ditch it until users are interested. Privacy document? Same. Purchase? Drop it.
See what I mean? If people like what you have built and use it, then the world will not come to an end because you did not have those things... and user interest will motivate you to implement them.
It's incredibly hard to work on something with no user interest. Just dump what you have built out there and see what happens.
- hoodoof 8y agoHey wow that's great advice I think I'll learn from what you say here.
- akavel 8y agoUh? A user replying to himself with congratulations? What's just happened here? :/
- hoodoof 8y agoI'm just saying heck I wish I could take my own advice. I am empathizing with the OP about how hard this point of a project is. Perhaps I'm being too dry.
- StaticRedux 8y agoThis might be the funniest comment/reply I've ever seen on HN.
- bigiain 8y ago24th 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...
- seem_2211 8y ago4% of 0 is 0.
- bigiain 8y agoSure, 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 will likely lead you to make better decisions about what you collect and how you store it, and reduce your and your users exposure in the worst case.
- blackflame7000 8y agoHey "fucking over the users" Strategy has been doing Comcast wonders for decades.
- bigiain 8y agoYep - and I have zero fucks to give about how much grief the GDPR is going to cause Comcast. Or Facebook. Or Google. Or Equifax.
- Geee 8y agoIt's whichever is larger.
- akie 8y agoAnd it’s the maximum penalty, not the penalty.
- marak830 8y agoChrist this hits hard to home. (Note amateur programmer here), I built my software, openers to beta testers and was active in the community. (It's a good deal control software for a popular game - pretty much a copilot who would do things for you). So many testers said they would try it out, never did and there was an insane amount of actual testers who wanted something slighty different. (Which i couldn't do, as I had spoken to the company, and doing certain automated style actions would have gotten me banned).