# Sort your launch list into blockers and comfort, then ship the blockers

- Category: mindset
- Author: Andrei Statescu (https://indie.md/people/andrei-statescu/)
- Source: https://indie.md/events/indie-tm-13-timisoara-july-2026/
- Canonical URL: https://indie.md/advice/separate-blockers-from-comfort-work/

When Andrei laid out two more sprints before leaving beta, gamification, an unnamed button, tooltip polish, a permissions audit, the room applied a single filter to every item: will a new user hit this in their first ten minutes? A confusing permissions dialog fails that test, because it kills the install itself; a not-yet-gamified Discord and an imperfect tooltip do not, because nobody churns over them in week one. Everything that fails the test is a launch blocker; everything else is comfort work that can ship in the sprint after launch, informed by what real users actually stumble on. The audience's push to launch immediately was not recklessness but sequencing: a beta that runs long defers the only feedback that matters, strangers using the product without you in the room. Sort the list, ship the blockers, and let the comfort work compete for priority against real user complaints, a competition it usually loses.