9 months ago, I start the first project that I convinced a friend of mine to work together on for 6 months. Eventually, it ended up in the project graveyard. We spent 6 months working on the project without getting having feedback from any end-users. Few months down the road, he got bored of it, left the project, and eventually, I ended up killing it without having any users using it.Some mistakes I made are:Made the assumption that he is as passionate about the problem as I am.Did not get him excited about the idea.Did not get user feedback, no motivation to keep going on.Reasons why I did not share with users fast enough:Telling myself that I wanted to make the product good enough(next feature fallacy) but if I were to be honest with myself, I did not want to receive negative feedback, people telling me that my product sucks, embarrassed to fail. Tried to delay as much as possible, lying to myself that even if people don't use it, I would. But guess what? I don't use it.Cares only about coding and not selling. Coding is what I love but since then learning to focus more on delivering value instead of a perfectly working app.Fast forward to my next project, took me 1 month to get it working with a minimal set of features, shared it with the relevant community on Reddit/telegram. The response received ranged from lukewarm to bad. Although I did not expect people to be excited about it, having bad negative responses kinda hurt.I know it is part and parcel and eventually, I will get used to it. On the bright side, this is the first time I am getting a few users every day on my site so that's some motivation.Currently doing this alone so there's nobody to rant to. Putting it down as a reminder and motivation for myself and hope others found this useful. see hubwealthy.com/wealthy
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