>> Usually, you feel like you’re creating something. But this time, it feels like you are discovering something as if it already existed. I can relate to this.

>> Usually, you feel like you’re creating something. But this time, it feels like you are discovering something as if it already existed. I can relate to this. >> It’s not that people didn’t like the project. You know it has tradeoffs and expected people to talk about them. But that’s not what happened. >> Instead, the comments are largely irrelevant to your idea. I can't relate to this part. I authored a somewhat popular open source server/framework project (over 5k stars on GitHub now) and my main problem for years was that there weren't enough people using or commenting on it. The few people who were commenting on it over the years were consistently and exclusively giving positive feedback. Someone even wrote their master degree thesis about my project's scalability and performance. Developers started writing many clients libraries for it (there are now clients in pretty much every major language including more obscure ones such as Unity and one is currently being written for Unreal Engine). For 5 years, I was constantly searching for criticisms and problems to justify why my project wasn't more popular (so that I could fix the problems) but nobody offered any criticism. Instead people kept telling me that the project was underrated and deserved more attention. It's pretty heavily used now; it gets a lot of downloads on npm, for some reason, it just got steady linear growth and still it doesn't get talked about much. Now I'm thinking that maybe the problem is simply that I'm not active on Twitter.