Lessons after launching for the first time.

Hey guys, I just wanted to have a quick discussion and share our learnings after launching our recent product Potarix. 1. Just get it working - We initially battled with serverless platforms like Google Cloud Run and Vercel for days to deploy because we needed a very specific environment to run a scraper. Just spin up an EC2 instance if you find yourself battling with any type of serverless infrastructure. It’ll take like an hour to deploy any application you want. You can always fix it later. 2. If you’re launching a time-consuming service, you need a way to save the work. - Our platform can take 5-10 minutes to complete a task. If the user clicked off the page in any way, it would throw off the app, and the task would fail. To remedy this, we quickly launched a concept of “jobs.” Now, every job you create is saved alongside its results as well, so you never lose information when you click off the page. 3. Launch with analytics - It's difficult to figure out what your users are doing with your product. Make sure you launch with analytics. We didn’t do that on our first launch and have no idea what users were using our platform for. We quickly integrated Mixpanel right after our first launch, and it's fun seeing what our users are doing! What do you guys think? Anything I’m missing that you guys have learned?