[6ren]

Love the serendipity moral; loved surviving the vicissitudes. The story reads well.

There's a lacuna between Codentical and Parallel X: 1. people willing to pay for it; 2. a spark went off; 3. "validate before you build"

You say you did have paying users, so why did you stop? What was the spark? I'm guessing that there weren't enough paying users - but that's not stated. This makes an inexplicable gap as you race down the homestretch of the story. It's not a huge problem, but since the rest of the story is so great, it's a shame to mar it.

Also, the story would be absolutely compelling if you mentioned the specific CPU, GPU and task that gave the incredible speedups. Your reader wonders, "Why aren't they mentioned?"

[tonydiv]

We had paying users for GraphMuse, not Codentical. GraphMuse was shut down by Facebook, whereas we quit Codentical.

As I stated, we had a good number of people "willing to pay for it," but they weren't paying customers yet.

We will include this information on our website soon! :)