[chaostheory]

"I'm not saying there was no solution. There might have been, but the team and I could not find one. Think of it this way. You and a team decide to summit a mountain. It's a high-risk endeavor. After weeks of going over your maps and equipment you just can't see a plausible way up. Do you call it off or set out hoping you'll be able to figure it out. It doesn't mean no one can do it. I means I could not do it with that team and that equipment."

From what I've read (and I could be wrong), it just sounds like you burned out. From personal experience, it's super difficult to keep up the energy and morale when you're either solo or semi-solo (when your cofounders aren't full time like you are). Part time cofounders are better than no one, but they're nothing compared to a full time cofounder who's with you in the trenches.

Good job on lasting as long as you did on that death march.

[timoth3y]

Tired certainly, but not burned out. If we could have come up with an approach to solving the problem, I would have been 100% on board.

I have no problem working 70+ hour weeks for something I believe in. I've done it before, and there's a good chance I'll do it again. Just not on this project.

[chaostheory]

Isn't uncertainty a major characteristic of a startup though? Even if you guys had a hypothesis that you believed in, would it necessarily be correct? I'm just saying that maybe you'd have more faith if either you weren't working 70 hour weeks or you had another full time co-founder