Is postponing your PH launch at the last moment a good idea?
Amol | OpenSign™
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We had a launch of our product “OpenSign - Open source DocuSign alternative & more” planned for 20th Oct at 12:00AM which we cancelled because we identified some last movement glitch in some features. We were super excited about our first ever launch. We had an option to go ahead with it hoping that very few people will actually experience the issues & talk about it, most of them will not check that feature out but we decided instead to wait for a few days more & launch something that at least does not have known major issues.
What are your thoughts? Was it the right decision?
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Gaurav Sharma@grvsharma
It depends of you, if you feel the product is not ready for some reason then go ahead and do it. Small tip, we had the launch scheduled on the weekend (new to PH did not realize traffic is low on weekend) so we postponed it to a weekday, but PH launched it anyway (probably a bug), and the customer support was probably on leave as it was the weekend. So, if you are postponing better confirm with customer support that the new date is saved! Also, in our small experience vast majority of the people never try the product, they only look at your announcement and video/images you put in the launch and decide to press upvote. So if it's for publicity and SEO, you might still want to do it as earlier is better. But if you do hope to find users here then wait to fix your important bugs!
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@grvsharma Thanks for sharing the insights. It will really help as we are going to do our first ever launch here very soon.
Never is the perfect time to launch. So, let's launch! Than we can fix, improve or scale.
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@winged_piggy Launch with features that have issues or strip those features & launch?
I believe if what represent your core features as a MVP is up and running, then go ahead and launch. It totally depends on which features are having the glitches