Building something new takes time. I've been working in an org where we've been doing a ton of building from first principles for about the last two and a half years. We're starting to get the product we've thought and theorized about so much out into the hands of the people who we've been building for this whole time and it's an incredibly gratifying, cathartic, and scary feeling.
Building always takes time, especially at the intersection of hardware and software. Sweating the details is table stakes, and you're going to make mistakes. That's ok, you'll build your way out of them. The difference now is that it isn't internal stakeholders giving feedback on my designs, it's the people I want to help with my work. That makes things incredibly real, and has really lit a fire to move quickly and build even more on the experiences that we've been sweating for so long.
Our press launch is today, and the nervous energy has been palpable in the office, in every meeting for the past two months. A lot of people have been holding their breath for a long time. It's worth reminding ourselves of what we believe to be true about the product we've been working on, and how much that matters.