So, any tips on what I should do? Find a co-founder, preferably someone who is a) not a teenager, and b) exudes enough gravitas to convince prospects that you

So, any tips on what I should do? Find a co-founder, preferably someone who is a) not a teenager, and b) exudes enough gravitas to convince prospects that you guys know what you are doing. The other things you might want to do is to meditate a while on your value proposition. If your potential customers are telling you that external factors (such as the desire to keep data off the books) are large enough to render the benefits of your service moot, you need to take that seriously. There are a number of ways out of that conundrum: increase the benefit of using your service, so that it outweighs the negatives (of potential exposure to the authorities); alternately, find a way to mitigate the negatives (i.e., a higher level of security/deniability, that would allow people to maintain their current practices); or, pivoting to another related idea that does not have the complications fo this one.