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When the Feedback Stops
The part where you’re building quietly. Waiting. Tinkering. Making judgment calls with no real data, just your gut and some educated guesses.
Luke Himmelsbach
May 14, 2025
Readers!
Welcome back, I hope your inbox wasn’t too lonely last week, but fear not. I’ve returned to continue my ramblings.
Paris was absolutely beautiful and the week of R&R was much needed to get some proper celebrations in. I was able to meet up with the CreatorPad team in person, replace my blood with Aperol Spritz, and eat my body weight in meat and cheese.
While I’m back to the grind, I feel refreshed and ready to dig into some exciting work in the next few weeks. What are you readers excited for in coming months? New developments on your start up? Cool content collabs coming up? New videos that you’re excited to drop?
Reply to this email and let the community know about some of the awesome things that are on your horizon! We can help celebrate you, support you, or give you some feedback that you might craving. We’re here to help, just reach out. 😎
Speaking of feedback…. Let’s get into today’s issue.
-Luke
When the Feedback Stops
Source: GPT prompt of: “comment bubble with the sad face”
When you’re getting feedback, the thing you’re creating tends to actually feel alive. Like what you’re building matters. Like it’s real.
It could be a message from a user, a comment on a post, a meeting with an investor or advisor. These can be the fuel that gives the work momentum, clarity, and purpose.
But then the feedback stops.
Not because anything’s wrong, but because you’re just in the “in-between”.
The part where you’re building quietly. Waiting. Tinkering. Making judgment calls with no real data, just your gut and some educated guesses.
You’re not launching something new. You’re not sharing a ton online.
You’re just… working.
I’ve found that it’s in those quiet moments that my brain starts to wander.
When the feedback stops, you question whether the direction you’ve chosen is right. You doubt whether anyone even cares. You wonder if this is a sign to stop.
It’s the startup and creator version of shouting into the void.
But what’s helped me the most during those stretches, is staying connected.
Creating little moments of engagement. Posting something small, reaching out to a friend or advisor, asking for feedback, showing a WIP screenshot just to start a conversation.
It gets things flowing again. And it serves as a reminder that oh yeah, I’m not actually alone on this.
The silence can feel like no one’s paying attention, but more often than not, they are, they just don’t always say it.
And that’s okay.
You don’t need feedback every day to keep going, but you do need to believe that what you’re building is worth seeing through.
So if you’re in a quiet stretch, don’t panic, reach out. Say something. Ship something.
Because silence might be golden… but it’s terrible for morale.
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