Now that we're five months past Version Vibrant's launch, the site really doesn't need me as much as it used to...theO's team does a great job day to day and Version Vibrant's technology is such that I can manage improvements to it without using 100% of my time.
When we launched VV so many months ago, I predicted that it would either take off huge, requiring 100% of my time to manage growth, or it would be a more long-term, slow and steady endeavor.
I was really hoping for the first one, since that's what every producer/entrepreneur/creator hopes for when they work on a big, ambitious project, but the result was closer to the second one.
Launching the site was kind of a nightmare because I had a lot of health and relationship issues right before and right after which made me slower to react than I should have and resulted in us losing a bunch of visitors and members. I spent about a month in bed, yikes. VV's launch might always haunt me in some way.
I'm not sure if it's possible for theO to ever grow as big as I'd like it to without introducing lots of cheesy, gimmicky things which I'm not really interested in doing. We'll just keep improving over time, it's fine for theO to be a really solid and "medium" sized site than filled with nonsense and gigantic. Oh well...
I'm going to start working 50% on theO and 50% researching toward my next big project. I'm taking things easy because it's draining working on them. I have two interesting ideas: One web-based and one iPod Touch/iPhone based, all subject to change...
