Pretty Mac in beta - first batch is out! 🤖
Everyone here will probably feel identified with this:
You just finished building the first version of the product.
And got a dozen or so people who are kind enough to say yes to try it out.
To try it out because probably they like you, they like the idea of your product, or they simply are too polite to say no 😅.
But hey, they are the superheroes of the startup world! The first few users who are ok with something slightly crappy and buggy, and are open to giving you honest feedback.
So you just hit send. And send that email to all of them, with the link to try your app.
That's what I just did. 7:32pm. Friday evening. 34° in London. And I'm not sure if I'm sweating because of the weather, or because of my own stress while writing that email to "beta test the new Pretty Mac App".
But hey. I sent it off. And now I can smile (till the feedback starts coming in!)
If you've built something, you know nothing matters until you put it in front of people.
And you can think whatever you want inside your head, but the only reality happens, once you send that link, and people try it out.
So tonight, I'm going to have a glass of wine, and say cheers for all of you (us!) building, and shipping on a Friday night.
If anyone here wants to try the new Pretty Prompt mac app, let me know. We're in beta!



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I definitely hear you on this one! I reached out to a few people, hoping they could try out SprintVibe and I didn't even get a response. That's the worst, but what can you do?
That first beta email is always the hardest. 😄
I've learned that the goal of a beta isn't to hear "it's great" it's to discover what breaks, what confuses people, and what they ignore completely. Every piece of honest feedback saves time before a public launch.
Good luck with the beta! Hope you get plenty of actionable feedback.
this hits. i shipped my own beta last month at 11pm on a tuesday and stared at the inbox for an hour waiting for someone to reply. nobody did until 6am. i had convinced myself the product was dead by then.
it wasn't. it was just a tuesday at 11pm.
the part nobody warns you about: shipping is the easy part. the 6 hours after when you're waiting for someone to say anything is the hard part.
cheers to fridays in london. would love to try pretty mac if there's still a beta slot.