A profitable, growing, useful, legal, well-loved... failure

It makes sense that if you wanted to be in the business of changing the way databases worked fundamentally and ended up making a flash app to make Access databases accessible online that your heart might not be into the final product... that being said it is worth admitting to yourself that you would rather have accolades from fellow programmers rather than heaps of cash. Understanding this... helps.

Dupe, today, with 100+ points: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3754531

http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+Starter+the+Architect+the+Deb... seems relevant here. I often have the same problem - once the crazy technical stuff is done, I lose interest in the mundane details of packaging, finish, promotion... you know, the boring 90%.

I would raise a small round of VC, hire a salesperson, a customer service rep, another couple devs to keep the build going, and go all-in. Definetly all-in.

Life is short, don't look back at this later as your biggest missed opportunity.

For those curious, I think he's talking about EQLData.com

Wonderful post, thanks for sharing.

This is the Moby Dick of blog posts. Incredibly boring, but that's the point: he's illustrating how boring his startup was, so he quit, just as HM illustrated the monotony of whaling by making Moby Dick beautifully written but unreadable. Still, I hated reading it, and I didn't mind MD.