“Great work all !”
That was the first line of my note to the Wahoo X team after launch day.
I had been out of town and was still digging back through the inbox. I added a filter so the expense notes would stop disappearing. I had also created a daily event called Party Ride, which was really just an open room where the small group I worked with could jump in for a quick conversation.
The name was more fun than “ad hoc meeting room.”
The launch itself was the good part. Wahoo X put SYSTM and RGT under one membership. One app had structured training, videos, strength, yoga, and plans. The other put riders together on virtual roads. They were different products, but the membership had to make sense as one thing.
Most of the work had started before I joined Wahoo. The team had spent the prior year getting the platform ready for indoor season. My launch note was mostly excitement and credit where it belonged. A lot of people had pushed hard to get it out.
Then launch day became regular work again.
The bundle description needed to say plainly what somebody was buying. I wanted much more direct copy: trainer, annual Wahoo X membership, everything needed to ride inside. There were also product cases to compare. I made a simple pass and asked how many variables we actually needed.
Apply was still running beside all of this. Another large group of product photographs and production files landed in Drive. The side company did not care that the main job had reached launch week.
By Saturday I had both Wahoo X products open at home.
RGT was on the television. SYSTM was on the tablet. My desk was covered in cables, bottles, a keyboard, a lamp, and the normal pile of things that had not found a better home. The tablet had fingerprints all over it.
The desk looked terrible. Both products were running. Indoor season had arrived.