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Aaron Bailey
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I think it's all up to you. I used it when I felt comfortable sharing my product with the world. You can only /launch your product once. Once you do, it'll show up on the "launched" tab under products and "launched today" on the frontpage, so there's not much risk in /launch-ing here.
Most registrars have free email forwarding, like so: www.namecheap.com/support/kno…
Unfortunately Namecheap only provides email forwarding if you use their name servers.
Why something new? Why not double down on what you've already built and spend some time marketing it?
Subscriptions to all WIP products 🤣
It’s hard to answer this without knowing what your product needs but I agree with ^ — prepay as much as you can on future subscriptions, and maybe hire/outsource anything you might need to take off your plate.
Good point. Yes, people in charge of using Slack for their organization. Not end users. Thanks for clarifying.
Besides kindness ;), I'd say the most valuable thing a 16 year old could learn today would be how to identify problems around them and how to apply entrepreneurial skills to solve those problems, creating value for themselves and for their communities.
This. As a 15 year old I wish this was taught in schools more. For context, I'm in an early college tech program at my school and as a group we all have an entrepreneurship unit as part of the high school side right now. It's a joke though. One of the lessons, we watched an episode of Shark Tank. It's infuriating because that's not what we should be taught early on. Instead it should be small, bootstrapped companies that we start ourself. They also stress the idea of inventions and patents, and how we should look for new ideas. Obviously this is important, but execution is often times more relevant than a unique idea.
@rileyw Thanks for your insights, I think your point of view is really valuable! Are you serious? "Watch SharkTank + file patents" as a way of teaching entrepreneurship, srsly? Lol. I'm sorry for you, man. Hope you learn here in WIP everything they're not teaching you.
So I guess your approach would be more of a "entrepreneurship workshop"? But like real entrepreneurship haha How would you imagine a perfect workshop like that?
Haha, yes, seriously! It wouldn't have to be workshop persay, but I would at least go over that entrepreneurship isn't just about investors, patents or "making it big". I think a lot of kids my age have that pre-conceived notion. Of course it could be that, but there are a ton of forms of entrepreneurship. Online, in-person, bootstrapped, funded, side projects, full-time projects, big companies, solo projects, etc.
Meditation - I use Calm, which is fantastic. Perhaps there’s a need for a meditation app for builders!
I also hire a trainer 3x a week or I do group classes.
Taking walks when feeling anxious helps.
And talking through it with a professional therapist or friends.
It's a hard spot to be in, having a day job and trying to ship. Perhaps you need a week off from shipping (and the day job?); or perhaps you can reset expectations to 30 minutes before or after day job for shipping for a few months while focusing on de-stressing the day job? Sorry if this seems preachy... just some things that came to mind. I've been there and it's not fun.
Also, excited to see your launch! Let me know if you need upvotes/shares. Good luck!