> Balance your early engineering and infrastructure with achieving Product Market Fit
No, not really, you should focus way more on the latter really. We devs love the first tho. e.g. comment from your original post 12mo ago: "Super stoked to see you launching after working on it for so long!" -> how much of the code you've written was necessary to come to the realization you eventually came to? Based on the way you described your trouble selling, seems like very little to none.
- Azure seems like a bad choice (running out of capacity lolwut)
- corollary to above: don't get too attached to where you worked. Seems like your original idea was heavily based on something u saw internally. Just because something works well at one (usually large) company you worked at doesn't mean it serves a widespread market need (I've been burned by this).
Just some thoughts, hopefully your pivot is successful!