On Friday, I uploaded my thousandth photo to my website, Mopho.to. If you’re unfamiliar with the site, it’s a stock photo site for bloggers and social media mavens. You pay $5/month and get unlimited photo downloads from the site for whatever you need.
Back in August 2013, before I started the site, I was contemplating how successful the site could be. I was pretty sure I would be sitting pretty when I had over 1,000 photos on the site for people to download. To me, that was the threshold where people would see value in the site. In fact, I was tempted to wait until I had the 1,000 photos before I started making it available to the public.
I’m so glad I didn’t wait. It would have been almost a year before anything actually happened on the site. And I’m willing to bet I would have been discouraged in that year of very little progress.
But since I’ve launched it, I’ve actually had a decent number of people signing up. The site’s been growing and gaining momentum. Even when I didn’t think it was ready.
In my life, I’ve found my dreams are often ready for the public far before I think they should be. I think too many of us sit on our idea until it’s perfect. But an idea is never perfect. It’s never truly “ready for the light of day”. And in the meantime—while we’re sitting on the idea—our butts are getting sore and the idea is suffocating.
I encourage you, expedite your ideas. Don’t sit on them so long. Act on them today. Tweak as you need, but launch.
Once you reach the core functionality of your idea—meaning the essence is there—launch the idea. No idea is ever perfect. But if it’s a good idea and you execute well, it can still be successful.
