Falling victim to perfectionism

Strip it down to the metal and ship it softly. Don't do a full launch straight away, but keep it "public" on the web.

There's no point optimising for sales right now (with fancy landing pages and a ton of value-add features etc..), this is the time for experimentation and iteration. I'd suggest finding someone in meatspace who might have a use for it and work with them - even if they don't use your product, a conversation is still a ton more data points than you had before.

Honestly, you won't remember launch day. You'll remember the first paycheck.

Start up School has a lecture about this. https://www.startupschool.org/videos/65

Basically do you remember what AirBnb MVP was... No you dont and btw it was not great.. so dont worry about your first release.

Do less, but do it better.

Ask yourself: am I trying to ship only the essential functionality of my product? Or am I trying to squeeze in nice-to-haves?

Sometimes you may not know what is essential and what is nice-to-have. In that case you should just ship and find out!

I've made a news website once with a cool comment section with summaries and people could add their own summaries and so on (feature creep). I spent a lot of time on the comment section page and when I launched everybody stayed on the first page and almost no one clicked on the comment page.

So I think launching early + using analytics + looking the users over their shoulder (maybe with something like hotjar) helps you to optimize where to spend your time better.

Thanks for the like @asebold, I sent Fantasy Congress to my wife who is starting at the SFU Centre for Dialogue.