Design studio owner inspired by Getting Real

Max Guedy writes in to tell us how Getting Real has helped him create a new app:

My name's Max, I run a small design studio in Cape-Town, South-Africa. I purchased the ebook Getting Real a couple of hours ago and read it in one go, it was really inspiring and spoke mountains to me.

I've been planning a new app since august and got into many traps you mention... i have 3 partners ( a lawyer, a developer and a branding consultant ) and making decisions about small things is often what chews up our time and we are not even close to launching... at this stage, we have :

- a catchy name myows.com and myows.net
- an almost-finished logo
- the home page is 90 % complete, but we're struggling about the sign-up form.
- the copy is 60 % complere
- the wire-frame for the content pages.

Its very interesting that we naturally came up with a lot of features you recommend, a forum, a blog, video-tour, free testing phase ( we also want featured users )... but reading your book has just given me the extra-Oumpf i needed and valuable tips about the launching phase, i hope to measure up to your success one day !

Thank you for this great read, probably the best thing i've done on a Friday night since i found out my girlfriend was pregnant...

Keep up the great work !

Max

Thanks for sharing Max!