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0 pointsdocker_up7y ago0 comments

At what point does it become a failure, if 0 users after 4 months of effort is NOT a failure?

Coddling people, especially in business, is very counterproductive. People could waste years of their lives following bad paths because of bad advice like yours.

Not a single person has decided that the product is worth paying money for. If the purpose of the effort was to get some people to pay money for this, and the outcome is 0, how could you honestly say this isn't a failure?

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madmulita7y ago· 1 in thread

Yes, but how would one feel if one had to admit failure. We must put feelings before data! /s

marcelluspye7y ago

Or maybe, it makes sense to identify why something failed and label it as such.

not_real_acct7y ago

I couldn't agree more. I have a friend who's pushing fifty years old and he's been trying to make money with the same product for nearly thirty years now. I see his friends on Facebook constantly encouraging him, and telling him that he does great work.

He doesn't.

His product is atrocious.

They're just being nice and he should've thrown in the towel twenty-nine years ago. His income is literally less than $100 a year. (I believe he's on SSI disability now, which is how he gets by.)

matt_the_bass7y ago

I agree that there is some point that one needs to say failure. However from how I read the OPs description, it sounds like the product has not been marketed in any way other than a single Show HN. That is clearly a marketing failure. It possible points as a business failure but does not mean it is a product failure.

I think we need more data to state definitively.

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