day 0: submission postponed
Daily stories from the ambadoo team, behind the scenes, dev-stats and other random stuff.
This is where I’d have liked to write Yay, we’ve submitted and we’re ‘waiting for review’ but instead I’ll write what status is. We set this goal for a reason. Having a goal, a deadline to work against is crucial to move forward. And since we set the date we’ve moved a long way but didn’t make it all the way. And it’s ok.
The world doesn’t collapse, and no-one will probably even notice in their holidays if we release in two weeks or in four, or four months. The world’s survived for centuries without ambadoo, and can probably wait another few weeks for its arrival.
We’ve been working hard with extremely limited resources, way less than what we had when we estimated the timeframe for this milestone. And you can only do so much every hour, day and week. Yesterday I still naively believed that we somehow would make it today, still so until this afternoon Fredrik said: I’ll be honest, brutal and harsh: “there’s no way in heaven we’ll make it today”.
I admit, I was still hoping but understood it was a dead run, and to be honest I wouldn’t like to have submitted the app in the state it is in. We’re so close, making it it even harder to give up. But it’s good with reality checks. Today we all got one: You can’t make wonders with hands tied.
What now? We keep moving. It’s all about finding solutions, and do that as fast as possible. The release might be postponed but it will nevertheless come, one way or another. And it will be awesome whenever that day come.