This morning I spent the first half of the day with my son. My wife went to help her parents and I spent 4 hours with Clark. It was great, honestly was a little worried. My wife takes care of him full time. I was on my own! Ending up it worked out great. We just hung out and played all morning. Once my wife got home, it was time to work…but I just wasn’t feeling it.
So I did get a little bit of stuff done today. Signed up for Rocket, migrated the site but haven’t redirected the DNS yet. Its slower than WP Engine currently but it might be because it isnt cached yet. I actually wrote a support ticket and they said it needs some time to warm up and just go to the site a bunch and the php functions will “warm up” and it will get faster. We will test the demo site but if we cant get it to speed up over the next week or two, we aren’t going anywhere.
So I decided to take a nap. Didn’t sleep well last night, but honestly not feeling motivated at all. We don’t seem to be seeing much forward progress but I think this is common amongst most new companies. I got a text from a provider saying he hasn’t seen any more business since a couple weeks ago. I feel it… we are trying but man this is hard. Now we have more pages up and running for SEO we will see how the traffic to the site goes. I’m hopeful for SEO but I know it will take a while to get there. We really need to get paid ads going.
Another factor in my burn out is I feel like I’m on my own. My wife is here and a blessing to talk things over but all of the technical stuff is over her head. There has been a lot of little things, nonsense things, that have needed to be fixed over the last week or two like site speed, for some unknown reason our header disappeared on our website, needing to possibly migrate our site, etc. All things that are just running in circles and not making forward progress. My business partners are MIA. They went on a vacation and came back but its somehow going on 4 weeks since we have actually sat down to do anything together about the website. At this point Im regretting bringing them on. If they didn’t put money into the business, I’d just vote them out by now. They have actually become more of a stress than a help. The stress is more of a mental game.
I feel like Ycombinator or something like that is a good idea. We need some guidance in professionally building a company. This realm is not anything that us founders of Fix it Today really know a ton about. It seemed simple but there are a lot of nuances that are slowly eating at us. If we move forward with something like Ycominator, can we do it without a technical founder? If we decide to bring in a technical person, do I really need my existing team of developers? These are big decisions that don’t let me sleep. Sigh…Feeling overwhelmed and the lack of forward momentum is a killer. What can I do today that will really springboard us? Maybe Google ads?
