The Humble Launch Day

One of my favorite quotes is from Bill Gates:

“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”

Similarly, I think most people overestimate the importance of that first week of traffic -- and underestimate what months and years of persistent improvement (blogging, SEO, feature refinement, etc.) can do.

Best of luck to the author (who's apparently only one year removed from high school, which is incredibly impressive!)

Nice post Jackson. It's refreshing to read a business article that starts off with such a powerful story, as opposed to generic business examples. Keep it up.

While I truly appreciate the context and the thought behind this, I'd also advocate for stepping back and not throwing the baby out with the bathwater. A strategic communications effort can aid and assist your product getting noticed, but I totally agree that it shouldn't be the be all and end all of your product getting noticed.

I mean, if you can get TechCrunch coverage, why not? Will it be valuable? Maybe.

So, does this mean that OpenHacker will be launched in a humble manner?

Great post.