#59 - Fast Enough?

They say startups should move fast.

Is The StoryGraph moving fast enough? 🤔

Ever since the user spike, it has all felt too slow, whether it's spending two weeks to catch up with "Ordered for you" and Goodreads imports following the spike, or me taking six days to achieve just one product goal from the week's todo list. (Admittedly, it was a big one. More on that later. 😎)

There are so many improvements and developments to the site that are forever "on the roadmap" and sometimes, especially when responding to customer tweets and emails, I fear waning excitement and momentum.
 

Every time I land on the Find A Book page, I think: must improve homepage experience, must redesign filter menu, must make "Ordered for you" clearer, must add loads more books... 😅

 

However, when you feel like this, there's only one way to handle it: keep going! There'll always be some periods of time that feel slow and unproductive and others where you can't believe just how much you got done. 

After all, the thing that fuels me and the team is our belief in the product vision and the conviction that we will realise it.

And if past experience is anything to go by, I suspect I'll always feel like I could be doing more and better, no matter how much I've achieved. 🙃

Wishing everyone a super productive week!