How to keep Work-Life balance before launching on Product Hunt? Cat therapy and not only

Maria Suchkova
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Hello, Product Hunt friends! Perhaps it would be more correct to ask: "Is it possible to keep this balance?" Today, we've launched our platform for working with your data in the cloud efficiently and reliably 🥳 https://www.producthunt.com/post... This is the first launch on Product Hunt for our team. And for me, as a young marketer, this is also the first experience on this site. Many people advise preparing for the launch a month or two in advance. You have to do everything: prepare text and visual materials, communicate with the community, prepare social networks, negotiate with the hunter (and again we thank Ben @benln for hunting our project)! But, for some reason, none of the guides talk about life hacks that help reduce the degree of moral pressure during the launch… The constant use of messengers, social networks and gadgets increases the risk of technostress, which is accompanied by anxiety, irritation, and the feeling that you do not have time to answer someone. I think this time I started thinking about Work-Life balance only in the last week before the launch. I hope my notes will remind some of you how important it is to find a balance between productivity and sleep :)) 1. Divide launch responsibilities within the team, don't lock everything on one person. In addition, the launches are very uniting :) 2. Limit the number of tasks per day. For this, we can recall the advice of the American military figure Dwight D. Eisenhower. When you assign tasks, ask yourself two questions: Is this task important? Is this task urgent? 3. Set a time frame. Follow the rule not to enter work chats about the launch, for example, after 7 PM (it is better to spend this time with loved ones or your pet) and check mail only twice a day at certain hours; 4. Get rid of perfectionism. This doesn't mean you can afford to make a bad launch, but you shouldn't constantly regret that you could have done something better. It seems to be simple, but we still forget about it during such important projects as launching on Product Hunt. And while our launch is underway, I would like to ask if you have any effective methods for preparing for a launch comfortably?

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Margarita Shvetsova
My only recommendation to get to stress off the preparation for the launch coincides with yours: - Prioritize (is it important for us now? what gains do we expect from this action?) - Set aside enough time in order not to rush during last several days :) prioritizing tasks also helps with building an adequate schedule. And of course - good luck with your launch, Maria! :)
Cyrus
Did you focus on one platform only or multiple platforms?
Brenna Donoghue
Congrats on your launch... such an epic journey to get here. I love the way you're looking at this, your reminders that perfectionism doesn't fit here, and the urgent/important assessments. When it comes to balance, I think of it less in terms of day-to-day, because I think any time we're doing something really big and important to us, life falls out of balance. For me, it's understanding what is that period of time, what do I want to get out of it, and once it's done, how to I tilt towards other areas of my life. It's okay to go all in (though of course sleep and health and loved ones can't be ignored), but I know there are times when dialing down work and dialing up something else, needs to come.
Ilya Uglianitsa
This is the stress-releasing tricks, that I can suggest: 1) Make a plan, what you will do, if you fail. It will really increase your mental stability. Plus, it will remind you that fail is not a catastrophe 2) Keep in mind, that even if you fail, you still get value from PH: feedback, users, sales. Everything immediately starts to look not that bad, right 😉
Gaurav Goyal
Many congratulations on the launch. Looking forward to these tips as well :)
Imtiyaz
Congratulations on the launch! Hope your launch day did well and you are stress-free now. Launching a project can be nerve-wracking, but we're trying our best to make sure launch anxiety doesn't get the better of us. After postponing our launch twice, we aim to ship it during the first week of next month. we're paying particularly close attention to the next few weeks when it comes time for the big day. It's important for us to appease our anxieties when it comes time for something as big as a product launch! You can subscribe to our Ship page here: https://www.producthunt.com/upco...
Moore Ben
By now, after reading your new replies and tinkering with the play snake game by I feel I have a basic understanding of how it works. Looking forward to experiment more to see how I can make it all work.Thanks a bunch to all of you!
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