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>But people already paid for them and I failed to deliver those to them, so I can't in good conscience sell them.

Why couldn't you sell them and give the proceeds to the people who paid for them?

See my other replies above, but I had to take on debt to even get the hardware made, which then required me to get a full time job to pay off the debt. I tried to continue running the business on weekends but after years of burnout, working 7 days a week was killing me. I simply exceeded my capacity to continue operating the business, and so was unable to try selling the boards to refund people. I elaborate on this in the other replies but basically I had pushed through burnout for years on end by that point, and eventually you just hit a wall. You get to a point where there’s nothing you can do but walk away. That was 5 years in with no hope of success. I felt awful for letting all those people down, but I simply couldn’t continue to operate the business in any capacity, and no one wants to buy a failed business with loads of debt that has been eclipsed by venture funded startups shipping successful products.

Oh I read your other posts about no longer being able to run the business, your statement about not being able to sell them in good conscious just implied to me that you would otherwise be able to sell them.

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