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title: No One Cares (Yet)
date: 2026-05-18
description: Navigating the post-launch silence, waiting for my partner, and the joy of solving hard problems without the dopamine hits.
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I've now released the [open-source version of Widgetizer](https://github.com/tsiger/widgetizer), and it's out there in the wild. 

Right now, I'm still working on everything on my own. My partner has been focused on some important personal things lately, things that are obviously a priority. I'm patiently waiting for him to join me so we can take over the world, but until then, I'm keeping the engines running.

If there is one massive lesson I've learned from [selling digital products through marketplaces for almost 20 years](/2026/detaching-from-marketplaces/), it's that I can patiently wait for my time to come. 

When you launch something, no one really cares. Gaining meaningful traction takes time. I know many founders who get deeply disappointed in those first 2-3 weeks after launch. But that's usually because it's not the joy of solving a hard problem that keeps them up at night. It's the news all over the web about crazy high valuations and instant exits. They want the dopamine hit.

At this point in time, having access to smart AI tools like Claude makes this quiet post-launch period much easier to handle. You don't get the dopamine of a massive launch, but you get the quiet satisfaction of moving fast and building things exactly the way you envision them. No one cares if you are trying to solve a hard problem. Yet.

I have a super solid roadmap laid out for the next 18 months, and I'm going to work on those things like no one's watching. It's actually incredibly liberating not expecting anything "grande" to happen during this period. Obviously, many things need to move forward, but I know it's the compounding effect that will eventually get me where I want to be.

This is also my first major project where I'm not taking advantage of the built-in traction created by the platform I'm building upon (like WordPress or Shopify). Trying to get this thing off the ground completely independently is going to be a very interesting journey. I'm not entirely sure what to call it yet, a task, a problem, an adventure? But I'm here for it.