Postponement!

The 1st of May was supposed to be the day I launch the new retro site. A glorious day. A day to remember and celebrate. Working late the night before, I realized I won't be able to meet the deadline.

Technically, it's not so bad. The deadline has been postponed to the 10th of May, and not harm was done. No-one knows about the site yet, so no-one got upset. No-one was waiting for it. Nobody cares.

But me...

To me, it feels like a personal failure. Sure, things like that happen all the time. Deadlines move. Projects get delayed. Sometimes it's nobody's fault.

And yet - I still feel as though the weight of it all is on my shoulders. And so is the blame. I was the one who didn't make the deadline. I was the one who didn't get the site up on time. It was all me. And only me.

That being said - there's nothing much to be done about it. The site wasn't ready, and I prefer to delay it a few days and launch a better site, then meet the deadline and launch a broken one. Launching a broken site (even if it's a first version of it) is a bad business decision. After all - your website is usually the first thing people see. It's the face of the company. And if that's broken - so is the first impression. And first impressions are hard to fix.

So - the 10th. It's this weekend, and I'm working hard and fast to meet that deadline. Don't want to delay it any further. Keep your fingers crossed.