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The Big Day

Its already here! On the eve of the launch I am a little nervous and a little anxious to see how things get rolling. All of the hard work will not end with the launch tomorrow but it will atleast temporarily payoff. Months ago it was an idea that I couldn't stop telling my wife Becca about. Now in a matter of hours the idea will come to life. I am tired and feel like I haven't stopped for a second in the last two weeks. It is at this point that I leave my comfort zone. I unleash the beast and see what kind of potential it has. It was much safer as just an idea. Back then I could dream about it - speculate and hypothesize. Now I do all of that for the next release but in the meantime I worry about the little idea that could. Tomorrow will be the first time that more than a small group of everyday people begin to see it and use it. I am really curious about what they will think. I am for the first time feeling very vulnerable to outside opinion. Not that the ideas are completely original or autonomous. The greater social web movement should be thanked for their hand in this as well. The countless nights reading and searching and peering into creations of others who may have felt this way is why I am able to launch this thing. But I feel vulnerable to the poke and shake of the strangers who don't know every last detail of how I got from point to point. Those who look at the site with a virgin eye are the ones I am most curious about. Am I on track? I think so. But you don't know until you let go.