How do I plan a launch day so I don't run out of stock or crash my own site?
The short answer
Under-promise your stock number publicly and over-prepare it operationally - stress-test checkout, pre-load your fulfilment queue, and decide your sellout mechanism (first-come, waitlist tiers, or a lottery) before launch morning, not during it. Producing meaningfully fewer units than your forecast sounds risky but is exactly what protects you from both a dead launch and a site crash from oversell. Have someone dedicated purely to customer support and DMs that day - launch-day chaos is a support problem as much as a logistics one.
A quick summary to orient you. The real value is below: the resources worth your time, from people who've actually done it, not us.
Here are the resources
Hand-picked from around the web, each with a note on why it earns your time. India-specific ones carry a badge.
Why we picked it
Covers the operational side of a drop - checkout stress-testing, fulfilment sequencing, sellout mechanics - that separates a hyped launch from a launch-day disaster. The execution checklist most founders skip until it's too late.
Why we picked it
A ready-made way to actually build your launch-day runsheet - who's doing support, what the stock-out contingency is, what the countdown sequence looks like - instead of assembling it from scratch under time pressure. Free and immediately usable.
Why we picked it
Purpose-built specifically for product-drop waitlists, not generic SaaS launches, so it handles the countdown, early-access tiering and referral mechanics a drop launch actually needs out of the box.
