Yep! Me and one other guy built a web app called FitQuick which was basically a 2-sided marketplace to find personal trainers. Idea being you could use it to f

Yep! Me and one other guy built a web app called FitQuick which was basically a 2-sided marketplace to find personal trainers. Idea being you could use it to find PTs who offer group sessions in the park near you, for example. I learnt that apparently you need to actually talk to people to figure out if someone would want to use (i.e. pay) for your product in order for you to get anywhere. We ended up building an MVP but up until that point we didn't actually have any input from potential users so we were pretty off base and it just lost momentum because we were so deflated from no one wanting to use it. I also got insight in to how small businesses and in this case PTs operate. A lot of them are terrible at running businesses and seemed more interested in working out than making their business a success. I'm not sure entirely what my takeaway here is, but I will remember this next time I do anything that's B2B. In terms of warning signs there were probably obvious ones that we didn't notice because all we cared about was making a 'cool' product. When the penny dropped for me was when I went to demo it to a PT manager at a gym (we kinda pivoted) and she turned up 10 minutes late and then proceeded to do administrative paper work while talking to me and only half paid attention. -- In truth, it took a while for me to get over it because it felt like I was being shat on despite giving it a go. What I've come to realise is that no one cares if you're giving it a go except you and I shouldn't have expected gold stars for participation. I'm building something else now and have 2 actual users (non-paying) who are consistently using the product and providing feedback, so that's really, really, really rewarding. Here's the shitty-free-heroku-dyno version if you're curious: https://simplerm.herokuapp.com https://simplerm.herokuapp.com