the week before everything changes feels like this.
hey. it's me again.
if you're in india right now you know exactly what i mean when i say this heat is not normal. this is survival mode weather. the kind where you step outside for 30 seconds and question every life decision that led you to this moment.
but something happened yesterday night.
i was walking through my balcony after what felt like a genuinely good day at work. and suddenly the air changed. just like that. a little cold. a little fresh. water drops. the kind of moment you don't plan for but you remember.
and standing there i realised something embarrassingly simple.
everything in life is just weather.
the heat. the exhaustion. the loneliness of building something. the pressure before a launch. the days where nothing makes sense. all of it just a season. it passes. not because you fixed it. because that's what seasons do.
i know. not a groundbreaking insight. philosophers have said this for centuries. but there's a difference between knowing something and feeling it at 11pm on your balcony when the rain finally shows up.
anyway. let's talk about last week.
the week that almost broke me. didn't.
last week was the hardest kind of hard.
not hard like too much work. hard like 500 thoughts in your head all screaming at you at the same time.
we are so close to launching the new version of getmedesign. like so close. and everything in me wanted to just push it out. launch fast. fail fast. that's what i always say right?
but something felt off.
not broken. not wrong. just off. the way you know a dish needs five more minutes even when it already smells good. you can't explain it but you can't ignore it either.
so we didn't launch.
we sat back down. opened everything up again. UI. UX. tech. servers. distribution. all of it. one more time.
and i want to be honest about something that decision cost us a week. maybe more. and it was still the right call.
because what we're building deserves to fly right on the first try. not wobble off the runway and hope nobody noticed.
let me tell you about the people doing this with me.
we are six people.
six people building everything you see on the internet under the getmedesign name. and i want to tell you about them properly because they deserve that.
anmol — my cofounder. takes care of all things tech. here's the thing about anmol that most people wouldn't guess it's not his technical knowledge that makes him irreplaceable. it's the way he pays attention to the tiny things that actually matter. the details most people skip. if i hadn't found him i genuinely don't know if this blog would exist. or the product. or any of it.
hritul — i call him the doctor of tech. curious in a way that's almost annoying because he makes everything look solvable. handles the backend and also my stupid 11pm ideas. my process is embarrassingly simple i go to hritul first and ask can we actually do this? if he says yes i go back to anmol for the green flag. if he says no i pretend i never had the idea. i've learned more from him than i've ever told him.
snehal — my superstar. 19 years old. handles the frontend. and when i say handles i mean she understands what i actually mean, not what i say. which is genuinely harder than it sounds because what i say and what i mean are often very different things. the number of times she's looked at something and said this feels off and been completely right i've lost count. if snehal says it's off. it's off. full stop.
pardis — she's from iran. joined us as product designer. and honestly the story of how we found each other and decided to work together is the kind of story i'll write a full post about someday. what i'll say now is this she has a rare ability to understand what i want before i've finished explaining it. and she's doing incredible work in circumstances that most people wouldn't even attempt. one of the most quietly inspiring people i've met building this.
jainam — the newest one. young. curious. already doing work that surprises me. the kind of person who makes you think yeah. this one's going to be something. he's just getting started and already outpacing where most people are at his stage.
what's common between all of us.
none of us have met in person. fully remote. different cities. different time zones in some cases.
and yet we have never once felt like we're doing a job.
what connects us is one shared belief. whatever we build has to actually matter to the person using it. it has to make their life a little better. a little easier. a little less invisible.
when everyone in a room even a virtual one believes that? you stop managing people. they just go. they take ownership. they come with ideas you didn't ask for. they care about the product like it's theirs.
because it is.
honestly,they own this more than me now. and that's the best possible thing i could say about a team.
what last week taught me.
launching fast is smart. but launching something you know isn't ready that's not fast. that's just impatient.
a team that's aligned in what they believe matters more than a team that's physically together.
making something that genuinely impacts people is the only story worth telling. everything else is noise.
and just like the weather broke last night something is about to break open with this product too.
the heat always ends. the rain always comes. and then you go again.
see you next week. 🌻