[pfitzsimmons]

Were the paying customers actually using it? Did they love the product (ie, would be a 9 or 10 on an NPS survey)?

If yes, then you should have worked more on sales and marketing.

If no, then you built the wrong feature. Blindly adding a collection of features won't help. You need to figure out what the one feature is that will make customers rave about the product.

The core problem might be that your product ideas were "pretty good" ideas and not "very good" ideas. "Pretty good" ideas are deadly, because they are just good enough to suck you in, but not good enough to make a product that customers rave about, and thus not good enough to make with a product that is easy to market or spread by word of mouth.

[wtfhappened]

Yes they were. They did like it, I don't know about an NPS survey.

My product was similar to others already existing.