Things I learned on launch day, ranked by how little I saw them coming

1. Me and @nischal_naik refreshed our leaderboard page more times than we got upvotes, I hope we were not the only ones 😂

2. Nobody asks the question you come prepared for, instead they will ask the most obscure things you might have not even though they could ask, and thats a GOOD thing!! It means more people are have a different POV about your product and will also make you think from the different POV to answer those.

3. The upvote spammers found me before my own users did, within hours of launching, all our dms got spammed by scammers trying to selling me upvotes and "we will get you to top 3 rank" little do they know our organic support is far better than their botnet 😤

4. Its incredible how just a week of planning can give you the best results. Although we have been building Construct for 6+ months, we only recently decided to launch it here, just to put ourselves out there, we simply wanted to launch irrespective of whatever rank we get, but here we are competing for product of the day, incredible! :)

Before the day closes, we genuinely appreciation everyone who supported us.

@ruffledzest is the reason this launch looked like anything at all. Every visual, every asset, the whole aesthetic of the page and the product itself, that's him. People decide whether to click in about two seconds and he's the one who won those two seconds for us, over and over. Genuine MVP of the day and it isn't even close.

@nischal_naik half of everything here is yours, and you handled the parts I'm bad at all day.

@fmerian for hunting us and backing a product from two people nobody had heard of yesterday, and being so humble about it 🫶

Our beta users who broke Construct in ways we'd never have found on our own and told us about it anyway 😆

And everyone who showed up in the comments today, especially the ones who asked hard questions instead of just being nice.

This community was far more generous than we expected, and we came in with no expectations at all.

We're just a few hours from the end of our first launch day. If you've got a question, especially about limits or what Construct genuinely can't do yet, I'm here and I'd rather answer those than another nice one.

Cheers!

~ Ankush