Week 4 Day 28 30 min
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"Done is better than perfect"

Launch → Learn → Iterate

Go Live — Deployment and Launch

Principle: Done is better than perfect; launch and iterate Source: Making Websites Win (Blanks & Jesson) — experimentation mindset; Krug — testing early and often

Get SeenGet CustomersBuild

Today's Task

  1. Final checks:
  • SSL certificate active (https://, padlock visible)
  • All forms sending correctly
  • Google Analytics tracking
  • Favicon uploaded
  • 404 page exists and looks decent
  • Social sharing image (Open Graph) set for homepage
  1. Go live. If you've been working on a staging URL or temporary domain, point your real domain to Hostinger now (Hostinger's DNS management makes this straightforward).
  1. Submit to Google. In Google Search Console, request indexing for your homepage and key pages.
  1. Update all touchpoints:
  • Google Business Profile: add your website URL
  • Social bios: update the link
  • Email signature: add the URL
  • WhatsApp Business: update the website field
  1. Announce. Post on your primary social channel. Not "We're excited to announce our new website" (nobody cares about your website). Instead, lead with value: share one insight from your site, link to it, and let the work speak for itself.

Output: A fully live, deployed website on your real domain, connected to all your existing touchpoints.

Track C output: A complete diagnostic and specification document covering: homepage section-by-section analysis (what each section should do psychologically, what copy it needs, how it should be structured), inner page specifications, performance benchmarks, and a prioritised build brief that any developer or agency could execute from. You now have a document that turns a website project from "build me something nice" into "build exactly this, for these reasons, measured against these criteria." That document is worth more than most businesses realise — it's the difference between a ₹50,000 website that doesn't convert and a ₹50,000 website that does.

This is the most important day of the entire roadmap — regardless of which track you took. If you built (Track A) or fixed (Track B): you shipped. A live website starts working for you immediately: it builds credibility, it captures leads, it gives you real data about what people do (and don't do). If you diagnosed (Track C): you now have something most businesses never get — a precise understanding of what good looks like and a brief that ensures any future build is grounded in psychology, not aesthetics.

The businesses that win are not the ones with the best websites. They're the ones that launched, watched what happened, and improved. Your competitors with worse products, worse copy, and worse design are beating you right now for one reason: they're visible. Today, you join them. Tomorrow, you start beating them — because you understand the psychology and they don't.


DAYS 29–30: GET THEM TO COME BACK — AND WHAT'S NEXT

You've built the system to get found, build trust, create understanding, and make buying easy. But a business that acquires customers once and loses them is a business on a treadmill — always running, never ahead. The most profitable businesses aren't the ones with the most customers. They're the ones whose customers come back.