got roasted, shipped every complaint in a week. three things it taught me
Been building namestrace.com, a baby names site where every fact is cited to official
records. Posted v1 for feedback recently and it went badly in the most useful way
possible.
Three things I took away:
- Domain experts find in 30 seconds what you miss for a month. My "origin" data was
plain wrong (I was showing the languages a name is USED in and calling it the origin).
Weeks live, nobody noticed. One redditor who knows Hebrew names checked 4 pages and
caught it instantly.
- Ship the complaint, not your roadmap. Everything I built this week came straight
from that thread. My own todo list turned out to be wrong about what mattered.
- Mobile is a different product. I built everything on a desktop screen. Every
confusion complaint came with a phone screenshot attached. Spent as much time on
mobile layout this week as on the new data.
Basically zero traffic so far, just got indexed. Long road.
u/chadbigd — 3 hours ago