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Launching a real product, earning a single dollar in revenue from customers and selling a business for >0 are feats most entrepreneurs here are never going to be able to achieve. Just because it wasn't a billion dollar exit doesn't make it a failure.

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Exactly, and while it may not have been a massive success, there's a good chance he could parlay that success into something bigger in the future, since he now has a better understanding of how to achieve product-market fit, marketing, growing a business, etc.

Just because you earned a single dollar from a customer doesn't make it a success either.

Different people have different parameters for success. Clearly the author is happy with the outcome, why spend time arguing with them over it?

Because that is the whole idea of a discussion forum? This is not a "Validate me and cheer me up no matter what I did" kind of site, at least not in principle.

>>Different people have different parameters for success.

True, but I would say close to 100% of people who build and business and try to sell it have a pretty singular definition of what success really means - and it isn't 'I learned something doing it'

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