01

Launched on Monday, then I slacked off for 3 days straight. Zero guilt.

Haha.

02

Why didn't I feel guilty at all?

Because I know that since mid-February, I've been in a kind of vacuum project state. Eating, sleeping, dreaming — everything was about the project. It's not an exaggeration to say I felt like I'd become a project robot.

Every day, starting with 8+ hours of high-density focus and deep thinking. That's something I'd never done before.

So why did I push myself so hard on this project?

Because I clearly understand that for a SaaS, if you half-ass payments and subscriptions, it becomes a disaster for everything downstream — trials, renewals, cancellations done poorly lead to user complaints, and for you, endless bug fixes.

So I poured almost all my energy into payments and subscriptions.

Plus, I'm just stubborn like that. When I know something is critical, and doing it poorly will have serious consequences, I have to finish it in one go. And I have to do it right from the start, otherwise I'm anxious all day, can't eat, can't sleep.

Spent nearly a month, and I finally closed the loop on payments and subscriptions properly. The more I worked on it, the better it got — that was unexpected. So these three days of slacking off were my reward to myself. Guilt-free, justified.

03

What did I do during these three days? Sleep, zone out, scroll my phone, chat with fellow indie hackers, go for walks. Nothing productive.

Nothing? Yeah right.

Okay fine, I didn't actually slack off completely.

Did SEO basics, handled edge cases for upgrade/downgrade and trial periods, went to get my business license, completed tax registration.

Haha, I guess I fooled myself. Indie devs never truly slack off. My mind and body were probably made for indie hacking.

After launch, I was worried about how to sell. But the interesting thing is, during these three days of "doing nothing," all those worries and unclear thoughts started resolving themselves, one by one.

How to sell, who to sell to, what users' real pain points are — the answers to these questions weren't squeezed out sitting in front of a computer. They emerged while slacking off.

So now I believe this —

Strategic downtime after intense sprints isn't laziness, it's another form of productivity. The brain needs this gap to let all that accumulated stuff naturally 'emerge' to the surface.

Launched Monday, came back today, fully recharged.

Good night.