u/veffev

Not looking for war stories for the sake of it, genuinely curious about the mechanics of how founders find out something isn't working, and what they do with that.

A few specific things I'd love to hear from anyone who's been through it:

1. When did you actually know it had failed? Was there one moment, or did it take you way longer to admit it than it should have?
2. Was it a demand problem (nobody wanted it) or a distribution problem (nobody saw it)? How did you tell the difference, if you could?
3. Did you have people telling you it was a good idea right up until it clearly wasn't? Who were they, friends, early users, yourself?
4. What's the thing you wish someone had told you earlier, that you had to learn the expensive way instead?
5. Did you keep any of it? A lesson, a piece of code, a relationship, a smaller idea that came out of the wreck?

No wrong answers here, and brutal honesty is much more useful than the polished version. What actually happened?

Not looking for war stories for the sake of it, genuinely curious about the mechanics of how founders find out something isn't working, and what they do with that.

A few specific things I'd love to hear from anyone who's been through it:

1. When did you actually know it had failed? Was there one moment, or did it take you way longer to admit it than it should have?
2. Was it a demand problem (nobody wanted it) or a distribution problem (nobody saw it)? How did you tell the difference, if you could?
3. Did you have people telling you it was a good idea right up until it clearly wasn't? Who were they, friends, early users, yourself?
4. What's the thing you wish someone had told you earlier, that you had to learn the expensive way instead?
5. Did you keep any of it? A lesson, a piece of code, a relationship, a smaller idea that came out of the wreck?

No wrong answers here, and brutal honesty is much more useful than the polished version. What actually happened?

Not looking for war stories for the sake of it, genuinely curious about the mechanics of how founders find out something isn't working, and what they do with that.

A few specific things I'd love to hear from anyone who's been through it:

1. When did you actually know it had failed? Was there one moment, or did it take you way longer to admit it than it should have?
2. Was it a demand problem (nobody wanted it) or a distribution problem (nobody saw it)? How did you tell the difference, if you could?
3. Did you have people telling you it was a good idea right up until it clearly wasn't? Who were they, friends, early users, yourself?
4. What's the thing you wish someone had told you earlier, that you had to learn the expensive way instead?
5. Did you keep any of it? A lesson, a piece of code, a relationship, a smaller idea that came out of the wreck?

No wrong answers here, and brutal honesty is much more useful than the polished version. What actually happened?