What product was your startup building, how did having a fancy QR designer benefited your product? Was QR designer the product? Why did it fail and what are your plans next?
Basically I was working on a link shortener. However in addition to a link shortener that took you to another page, I wanted users to be able to create a mini website that could host apps. Like you could create a small page that had photos of your business and a menu/ordering app and an "IM with staff" app etc.
The fancy generator was kind of an added bonus, I always thought the QR codes I'd see around were so dull and unidentifiable! There was very little in traditional QR codes themselves to make them "human-scannable", so to speak. A QR codes is essentially a sign; it should have some information in it that you, a person, can parse. A little logo in the middle is weak at best.
It failed because I didn't sell it. I needed to sell it. I needed to talk to people. I needed to like cold call people, restaurant owners without websites. Annnnd I always came up with an excuse not to.
As far as next plans, I'm working on something else these days - https://markwhen.com
you are building crazy cool stuff
Wow this is also awesome! Some programmers are truly creative people haha
I can identify so hard with this it hurts...
If this is something you absolutely not wanna do, then not do it! Look for somebody who can sell, but almost impossible to find somebody.
Better built something, that you don't have to sell at the way you don't like. Speaking from own experience. This will be hard enough, but cold calls are nealry impossible for a one man show, especially with a low price product.
Finally, this is not the end. There will be more ideas and more opportunity. You're already on to the next thing. Keep moving forward. It's not how long or short the game is, or how quickly you move. It's how long you stay in the game. Keep playing the game.