Ethan Young

I got a cold email with the subject line "Shik Shak Shok". No context, nothing about it in the email, then three paragraphs about warehouse software.

I opened it, read all of it. and of course didn't reply, but I still remember it, which is more than I can say for the

fifteen "Quick question, Andriana?" emails sitting above it.

So it won my attention and lost the deal. I can't decide if that counts as working.

Last week I spent two days polishing an edge case in a settings panel maybe 2% of users would ever hit. Meanwhile my onboarding flow still has a broken redirect I've been ignoring for a month.

I think it's a comfort thing, polishing a small, contained feature feels productive and safe. Fixing the core flow means touching stuff that's scary to break, so it keeps getting pushed down the list.

Lately I've been trying a dumb gut-check before every commit: "would a user even notice if I stopped right here?" If the honest answer is no, I stop and move to something that actually blocks someone.

Curious how you all draw that line, is it a rule, a gut feeling, or do you just ship when you're sick of looking at it?

I've been lurking on Product Hunt for a while before launching my own app today.

One pattern I keep noticing: products with bigger teams or at least teams that look bigger tend to dominate the leaderboard.

More makers = more built-in upvoters on day one.
EDIT: THIS IS FROM A SOLO DEV :(