{"id":2111,"date":"2015-10-03T20:36:29","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T02:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=2111"},"modified":"2015-10-03T20:36:29","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T02:36:29","slug":"launching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2111","title":{"rendered":"Launching"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I launched<\/a> a partial rewrite of a long running side project connecting people to farm shares.\u00a0 Over the past few months I’d fixed a few pressing bugs and overhauled the software so that a site and data model that previously supported only cities and zips as geographic features now supported states as well.<\/p>\n

For the past week I’d been hemming and hawing about when to release–fixing “just one more thing” or tweaking one last bit.<\/p>\n

But yesterday I finally bit the bullet and released.\u00a0 Of course, there were a couple of issues that I hadn’t addressed that only showed up in production.\u00a0 But after squashing those bugs, I completed a few more tasks: moving over SEO (as best as I can) and social accounts, making sure that key features and content hadn’t been thrown overboard, and checking the logs to make sure that users are finding what they need.<\/p>\n

Why was I so reticent to release?\u00a0 It’s a big step, shipping something, but in some ways it’s the only step that matters.\u00a0 I was afraid that I’d forget something, screw things up, make a mistake.\u00a0 And of course, I didn’t want to take a site that helped a couple thousand people a month find local food options that work for them and ruin it.\u00a0 I wasn’t sure I’d have time to support the new site.\u00a0 I wanted the new site to have as close to feature parity as possible.\u00a0 I worked on the old site for five years, and a lot of features crept in (as well as external dependencies, corners of the site that google and users have found, but I had forgotten).<\/p>\n

All good reasons to think before I leapt.<\/p>\n

But you can only plan for so much.\u00a0 At some point you just have to ship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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