My Failed Side Project

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Speaking of writing posts that people will read, this is just another one right? Because it feels like marketing, especially since you obviously have not given up on the app as proved by the last paragraph.

Not really judging, I find it quite clever.

thanks. I'm not trying to be clever. I'm quite genuine. I've tried all I can think of. I'm sure it's a product that is, feature wise, on par easily with others valued in the millions. For that reason I'm hesitant to pull life support from my little project without at least one final push.

I read about a bunch of growthHacking/SEO/spamming/productthing/astroturfing effort. There wasn't much mention of talking to users getting their feedback and iteration to improve the product.

Coding is easy. Twittering is easy. Talking to users is hard. Much harder than socially engineering placement on Product Hunt and less fun than photoshopping up an ideal "booth babe" or writing a blog post...it's even harder than posting a blog post to HN because not only does it carry the same risks of vulnerability but those risks are even greater.

If the project is going to succeed, the push should be to find a small group of people use the product because it fits their brain...just one.

Good luck

fair enough.

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