After over 15 months of meticulous work building smart contracts, conducting extensive testing, undergoing audits, and more, SegMint reached its long-awaited launch milestone on Wednesday, February 28th. Was it a success? The succinct answer: It's still too early to definitively determine. However, in this note, we delve into the challenges encountered, observations on what went both right and wrong, what surprises arose, and what lies ahead for SegMint.