100% True. For 10 years I have been trying to get people interested in my programming language and software platform. 5 years ago I just got bans and couldn't create a topic due to lack of karma and it just never go frontpage r/programming or HN. I'm old school and I thought programmers would be interested in a simple mobile language with a real-time reverse debugger for live development created according to Bret Victor's principles, but it turned out to be in vain. Almost no one understands the concept of Bret Victor and in a year I found only one person like me who was busy :) Since this is programming, then it is difficult to find investments, because no one understands the product (investors are not programmers). I asked various people to donate, but it seems that the letters simply did not reach or were ignored (for example, I asked Amjad from Replit to donate several times, he arranged funny contests). As a result, it was easier for me to sell my time in web3 than to explain something to someone on public platforms about the perfect code, and the society was left without innovation. Later, I started seeing parts of my project as separate startups, here on HN and Reddit. If it were not for the complex technological implementation (I am a developer with 20 years of experience), then everything would have been lost a long time ago. Of course, later I realized all the mistakes, studied the market, marketing, accelerated by different methods.
Conclusion:
The problem of money and innovation is in 95% of startups, especially from developing countries with weak economies and IT startup sector, as I had. It is better for you to do something simple and not very technological or go to places where technology is developed like Silicon Valley or use remote accelerators.
The issues:
- no interest without money & marketing, public will not work for you
- marketing & public is evil
- language barrier
- cultural barrier
- commercial barrier (as old school, I didn't understand why r/programming moderator was banning me by low HQ and when I reported the moderator 'the ban stops tech progress', I got a second ban and can't hire someone to help me figure the issue due karma issue, lost it)
- karma in public areas (I still can't access macrumors when I had it 5 years ago, but after the interface change my account is lost)
- money, money, money again
If someone wants to participate, welcome
Programming platform https://www.reddit.com/r/acpu/
Web3 demo app https://www.reddit.com/r/Web3Wallet/