Finn Bradley

The build phase was actually the easy part. The real anxiety hit at exactly 8:14 AM yesterday when I hit "Publish" on my new side project.

I had spent three weeks prepping the landing page and doing all the "right" things. But as soon as it went live, I just sat there staring at my screen. Every time my phone buzzed with a notification, my stomach dropped. I kept thinking, "Did I mess up the onboarding flow? Is the pricing page broken?"

I ended up spending six straight hours just refreshing the analytics dashboard and the live feed. I didn't eat lunch. I didn't answer a single support email because I was too scared to look at the inbox. I literally burned out on day one because I was trying to control something I couldn't.

For the founders who have been through this: How do you physically stop yourself from refreshing the page? Do you have a specific rule or a ritual you use to force yourself to step away from the computer right after a launch goes live?

The last two days, I had some personal problems and spent basically the whole time trying to solve them.

And during that time I did no work, no posts, no ideas, no inspiration, nothing... =D

Just me, solving my own puzzle !

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