Playing the Long Game
Another slow month without shipping products. Sometimes life hits you, and when it does, it can hit hard. Knowing when to swim against the current and when to drift for a while is key to not going under.
As mentioned in my last post When Progress Slows, last month had been a slow month for me in terms of progress on Launch Quest. This month has followed much the same pattern, when non-indie hacking responsibilities have left me with nothing left in the tank.
Moving home, the day job being busier than usual, and if you can believe it, the weather being intolerably hot, have all come together to sap my energy and slow me down (to a standstill) on building new Launch Quest products. The regular non-product services that I offer continue to run but from a product development perspective I really have found myself in a lull.
Wisdom and experience is knowing not to fight this. With so much happening, burnout is close and it's a terrible place to be, one I don't want to return to, so I'm letting things lay low for a while. In the meantime, a few things have been happening.
Stripe have acquired Lemon Squeezy which I don't think is going to be a good thing for indie founders and product builders. We'll see just how long it continues separately but most likely it'll be shut down forcing people to return to Stripe (without MoR!)
Tailkit, a TailwindCSS based component library that I've used for a while, have continued to release monthly updates. The cadence is great and inspires me, and every now and then I think about similar projects I could work on. One I've discussed with John from Tailkit is a charts library. We really do need a Tailwind for charts, something that looks good and works well.
But alas, unfortunately from my side I have nothing really to announce. No progress, no builds, no ships, no releases. Perhaps over the remainder of the year, especially as it gets colder, I'll be able to focus a little more as I set up the new office and get something shipped — but this is the reality: being a parent, having a busy day job, and handling life's many stresses, really does take a toll, and it just doesn't give the same reservoir of energy that you have in your 20s to ship things.
Until next time.
