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Errr, giving up after 3 hours seems a little early. If you really believe in your product it will probably take years to build it up.

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Thanks Andrew. I agree. However if I can't even garnish more than a few votes from this community I really do want to go back to the drawing board and figure if I did something really wrong or I just need to redesign my landing page - feedback I was hoping for when posting it here in the first place.

Bad mentality. This community should not make or break your decision to move forward with an idea. There are good reasons to swing one direction or the other but this is not one of them.

HN is always going to be very hit and miss and increasingly miss as it gets more popular itself.

Don't let yourself believe that getting a popular submission here or a writeup on TechCrunch or whatever is a requirement for startups - it doesn't mean you've made it and it likely won't give you that precious first group of users. All it is is a nice little bonus that along the way will likely be overshadowed by much, much more important achievements.

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