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Yeah. I spent the better part of two years building something I really wanted to build that I thought people would really want to buy. Turned out I was wrong. If you're burning through your own savings you need to find out as early as possible if there actually is any real demand for your product.

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This is exactly what I'm afraid of. Sorry it didn't work out for you.

I learned a lot in the process. If I ever try anything like this again I'm going to focus on validating or rejecting the idea as quickly and cheaply as possible. There are some good resources online on ways to do this.

That sucks. Did you open source it, at least?

I wrote a bunch of custom audio DSP code that I still tell myself I’m going to do something with one day.

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