Returning & Avoiding Burnout
It's been a while since we've posted on the naked startup, and for that I apologize. Gameplan has been down to one full-time person, Arun, as I've been attending the weddings of some very good friends in the UK and Italy. I also took the opportunity to take a proper, no-Internet, break with my wife and a group of friends in Tuscany.
In my absence Arun has pushed the payment functionality and redesigned front end/homepage live, thus ending the free preview period. We'd done a great deal of the work before I disappeared but all credit to him for polishing off the rough edges and getting the site live.
I've also been working on the Neoteny Labs site (launching real soon now) and Arun has been working on an iOS side-project which should hopefully launch in the next month or so.
In our own way we've both been taking a break and letting our brains ease off on Gameplan before we begin marketing it in earnest. I obviously took a holiday (one which my wife has been reminding me I needed) and Arun has, although still working, completely changed his focus (I hope in his case a change is as good as a rest).
In addition, as I was in Europe I was able to attend Schnitzelconf, a conference aimed at bootstrapping entrepreneurs. I'll be following this 'apology post' with a few write ups of that inspirational event.
I personally feel immeasurably better, although I didn't even realize I needed the break, now refreshed and ready once again to blast into Gameplan-related activities and that includes keeping this blog up to date, so keep listening - I hope this is still useful.
