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So an app that would probably serve a real need fails because the team is unable to bootstrap the two-sided market. The best dev moves to a bullshit "green habits" app that doesn't suffer from such problems because... it doesn't really do much in the first place. Not the greatest outcome for the world.

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Hey man, don't knock 2020/2021 ZIRP era projects

Don't you remember before inflation when we were able to focus on climate change!

But you totally got us there, the startup failed because we were a vitamin (and because our on-the-fence seed round was scuppered by Putin cooling some feet)

Yeah, not so much harping on you as on the whole ecosystem. You seem to have done your part well.

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