My friend launched his tool a few weeks back and texted me at like 7am saying he was already awake refreshing the page. I checked in around noon and he hadn't eaten, hadn't left his desk, just kept switching between the upvote count, the comments, and Twitter mentions on repeat.
At one point the ranking dropped two spots and he called me convinced something had gone wrong, even though the actual upvote count was still going up. I tried telling him the number going down for a second didn't mean much, but it didn't really land in the moment.
What got me was that he barely replied to half the comments people left, because he was too busy watching the count instead of talking to the people leaving it. Told me afterward that the conversations he did have were the part that actually mattered, way more than where he landed on the board, but he only realized that after the day was basically over.
I haven't launched anything myself yet, so I don't know if this is just how day one always goes or if he made it harder on himself than it needed to be. For people who've actually done this, is the refreshing and spiraling pretty universal, or is there something you did differently that kept you sane? And for anyone else who hasn't launched yet either, does hearing this make you more nervous about your own launch day, or does knowing it happens to almost everyone take some of the pressure off?
Been going back and forth on this. Right now my setup lets Claude Code run migrations and seed scripts directly against a local dev database, but I've kept it firewalled off from ever touching staging or prod, even read-only. Everything that reaches prod goes through a PR I review manually.
Saw a comment in another thread here about a subagent going off-script and targeting its own orchestrator, which made me second-guess even the local access I've been giving it.
Where does everyone else draw this line? Is read-only prod access ever okay in your setup, or is that a line nobody here crosses? And for the people who do give agents broader database access, what made you comfortable enough to do that?
