Hello everyone.
Recently I developed a new product called [Product Graveyard], which is used to store your precious, abandoned, and failed projects.
Its function is very simple. After you register an account, you can publish your product information, including name, introduction, current product’s death status (nearly dead, dead?), and then fill in your experience and summary of this product. Then you will have your own homepage where you can display your failed projects to the outside world.
The original intention of making this product is as follows:
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Every product is a collection of your unique ideas, which is very meaningful in itself, at least to you.
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You put a lot of effort into every product. Although it failed, it deserves to be remembered.
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Falling out of love is not terrible. The terrible thing is that you are still in love without a new beginning. The same goes for making products. If a product fails, give it a special ceremony and then start again.
I’m excited about my products and ideas .However, when I showed the product to my friends [from Twitter, social groups], they said it was useless, they said it was a fake need on my part. This hit me so hard that I blocked them and quit the group. I once doubted that what they said was correct.
Later, I reorganized and carefully sorted out the product logic.
Develop products -> There are more and more products -> There are always product failures -> Don’t want to be forgotten or want to store them somewhere -> Product Graveyard
After re-arranging it, I felt that there was no problem with this logic. Then I strengthened my belief and I no longer worried about their ridicule.
When everyone denies you, you must believe in yourself.
Why would I want to do the additional work and post my dead or dying project to your platform, though? What’s the benefit for me? And what’s the benefit for any user, why would anyone want to browse dead products?
this sounds awesome! drop a link to it and i’ll check it out for sure.
as much as you can though: try not to take idea feedback personally. you’ll find:
- each idea is simply a starting point in the idea maze
- unless the provider of feedback is an industry expert, it’s usually indicates nothing about market demand
- the market is the only thing that can truly invalidate a need / idea / product
- even if the idea isn’t well received in its current form (and your friends are ‘right’) - that says nothing about you as a person. just tweak, pivot, and adjust until.
anyhow - keep building! you’ll kill it.
You should read up on agile development. There is no point in developing something that people do not want. Try to loop in your customers from day 1. Learning from peoples’ mistakes is indeed a valuable thing, but why in the firetruck would I PAY to put up my failed projects. You should pay ME for those if anything. (you and me is not meant as in me personally but me as a customer)
When everyone denies you, you must believe in yourself.
Agree, I don’t think think subscription model good approach here. Other than that it’s good to explore what builders think on why their product has failed.
There’s an element of faith involved in making any company. Because most companies fail, the safest piece of feedback people can give it “I don’t think this will work”.
Good on you for making that leap.
I like it. For the moment I am Still trying to keep alive my first app.
You can remember your failures yourself. You don’t need to store them somewhere like they are old cars you can pull the alternator off of. Ideas are really hard to come up with. But remember this. You need to be building solutions to problems. Not the other way around.
You can remember your failures yourself. You don’t need to store them somewhere like they are old cars you can pull the alternator off of. Ideas are really hard to come up with. But remember this. You need to be building solutions to problems. Not the other way around.
You can remember your failures yourself. You don’t need to store them somewhere like they are old cars you can pull the alternator off of. Ideas are really hard to come up with. But remember this. You need to be building solutions to problems. Not the other way around.
You will come up with something good eventually. But this is not it. Let it go. Put it on the Product Graveyard.
You can remember your failures yourself. You don’t need to store them somewhere like they are old cars you can pull the alternator off of. Ideas are really hard to come up with. But remember this. You need to be building solutions to problems. Not the other way around.
I think this is a very interesting product!
thank you
I’m glad I’m a poor average Joe when witnessing daily the lunatic attempts to get rich quick or slow by any bizarre means the distorted perception of the world as a heaven for the rich can create.
This sensitivity in this post scares me. It’s a call for fake positivity and encouragement and the comments are filled with people who are happy to oblige.
The world isn’t against you. Your life isn’t hard. Learn to move forward without constant encouragement. Learn to progress independently even when you face negativity. Pull yourself together. Be anti-fragile.