[andreivasiliev]

My startup failed because I was too secretive. I though I had a great idea and always worried that somebody would copy it. I spent 4 years working on my idea only to find out that nobody was interested in what I was doing. Now my mentality completely changed. I will be flattered if someone even bothers to copy my idea. At least that means I am doing something right.

[ajones93200]

Same here. I failed for the same reason. I wish I had talked to others about what I was doing earlier. These days when I go to networking events and hear people say "I am in stealth mode", the only thing goes to my mind is "Good Luck, Man".

[punnerud]

4 years working on it.. Can we have one line of description?

[andreivasiliev]

I was working on a video conferencing product targeting enterprise users. There were already many solutions on the market when I started: WebEx, BuleJeans, Skype Business, AdobeConnect, etc. As a regular video conference user, one thing bothering me most was I could not figure out who was talking to whom when there was a heated discussion. So I designed a system that could track people's attention so that everyone would know who was talking to whom. It took me a long time to build a usable product since I had never worked in the video conference industry. After I released a beta product, people told me that they would just ask for clarification if they don't know who was talking to whom. They would never learn to use a new system just because of that.