| This seems to be a common theme so I'll post this here instead of replying to each comment with the same thing: I probably should have named the blog post "I've lost interest in my product" instead of calling the whole thing a failure, as that may have been more accurate. To me it is a failure, but not because I've only gotten 1000 visitors over four months, or because I've only had one paying user. Instead, I call Rakasheets (the product) a failure because I've lost interest in what it was built for. I built it to solve inventory management for small businesses, but small business inventory does not interest me any longer (if it ever did). I find it hard to open the project in my IDE and work on it, or even to think about it at all. With that said, however, I haven't given up on the problem I built it to solve (inventory management). Instead I've given up on who it was built for (small businesses). I'd like to give more details about that but for now I'd rather build a plan of action before talking about what I'm going to do. On another note, I completely agree that four months is far too short to call anything a success or a failure. If I were still interested in the product I'd never admit it was a failure simply out of pride. (Also, thanks for commenting. I really appreciate the advice. If I didn't reply to you it's only because HN throttles comment submission rate. I was unaware.) |