In retrospect I attribute my failures to 1) Not being in touch with what people wanted, or gathering feedback throughtout the process. There were a lot of extra features that I implemented which consumed a great deal of time that never even ended up being used.. So I should have launched a MVP and took things from there. I was scared of launching since I beileved my project wasnt ready even though all of the core features were implemented.
2) Lack of marketing/logistics knowledge. After I was done building the site, I truly didnt have the cash or knowledge for giving it the exposure it needed to gain traction. I naively thought that after launch my product would just organically grow itself, by word of mouth without having to put much marketing effort. Very stupid assumption.
3)planning and organization. I took on way too much technical debt for the project to the point where I cant even modify it. I built the site at a time where I was also learning web development and it was my first project ever. I ended up minifying the code, and was not even a Git user at the time. The variable names were lost and I only have the minified output. This is probably my biggest technical mistake.
So in hindsight these are probably the largest factors that contributed to my project being a complete failure, and honestly have discoraged me a bit from following some of my other ideas due to the fear of failure, which might just mean I am more concious of where I spend my time or it might be something that is holding me back. I am not quite sure.