Completion Anxiety Syndrome
As we are finishing the alpha version of the software we grow more and more anxious and insecure about, well, everything. It’s a natural phenomenon to get nervous just before the finish but knowing that is only slightly comforting.
As I was walking home from the office today I noticed a Keyfinder in a shop. It reminded me of all the great inventions that seemed great at first, but weren’t after all. When my father first told me about this particular invention (I must have been 
I was thrilled with excitement over this beautiful and extremely useful gadget. I imagined never losing anything again and saved money until I could finally buy one.
But theory was better than reality as it often is. The keyfinder I got only worked if you were within 10 feet of it, it was clearly in sight and I whistled straight at it in just the right tone. In other words: it didn’t work at all.
Stuff like that scares me to death am I’m sure it has this effect on every serious entrepreneur. After all; it is our job (as entrepreneurs) to convince other people of something ‘new and improved’ and make some money in the process. But sometimes your ‘new’ isn’t much of an improvement and there is no other way to find out than to try and risk everything. And some people get so scared that they might say ‘Maybe the timing isn’t right’ or ‘It’s not perfect yet, maybe I should wait’ which is all nonsense of course. It’s just another way of saying ‘I am scared shitless’.
And still, every time when I’m nearly finished with a project I feel the same anxiety, which I will now call ‘Completion Anxiety Syndrome’. It is that feeling that slowly creeps in and starts messing with your ‘Completion Euphoria Status’…
Edd said,
April 26, 2006 @ 11:55 am
Well hopefully your alpha release doesn’t disappoint
Any idea of a date when you’ll let people join the alpha/beta program? (Well, those not living near you.)
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten said,
April 26, 2006 @ 2:11 pm
Edd: Somewhere next week. Don’t know when exactely…
Christoph Lukas said,
April 27, 2006 @ 7:03 am
Cool! Cant wait for it.
fefe said,
April 27, 2006 @ 9:21 am
u$s 250 for a job post?
boris, dont say again you have money problems!
lol
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten said,
April 27, 2006 @ 1:46 pm
I don’t have a problem with money but money seems to have problems with me. It keeps runnign away from me. I don’t know what it is. Maybe I don’t respect it enough?
fefe said,
April 27, 2006 @ 2:37 pm
hahahaha
did the job post worth it?
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten said,
April 27, 2006 @ 2:45 pm
Fefe: yes it was worth it. More than 10 applications and several hundred visitors in one day. Not bad…
fefe said,
April 27, 2006 @ 3:12 pm
when i read the fleck post i said, look boris looking for some traffic!
hahha, it is all about marketing isn’t?
SvN say that they will put a sidebar on the blog whith the lastest posts, i dont know how many visitors they really have, but if you got several hundred of visitors for that post, i’d like to know what happen when they make the sidebar on the frontpage. and i know you boris will be there to test it! do i am wrong?
hahhaha
greetings from a argentinian reader living in italy.
Anonymous said,
April 28, 2006 @ 4:46 am
I know the feeling… but as long sa you Believe in what you have constructed… (at least in the principle of what you have constructed