> I couldn't seem to get anywhere.... My efforts were fruitless I don't quite understand. You wrote that you offered a product which solves a problem for an a

> I couldn't seem to get anywhere.... My efforts were fruitless I don't quite understand. You wrote that you offered a product which solves a problem for an audience. That's an achievement! Maybe even a great achievement, depending on what the product is and how many people use it and for what. I don't mean to belittle the sting of not enough people caring, following, upvoting etc. - but if people are using your product, then you've bettered their lives, and that is commendable and admirable. Building a successful startup is not just not-easy, it is nearly impossible, in the sense that the vast majority of start-ups fail. Indeed, some people might be in a social echo-chamber where they get a distorted sense of what's feasible and what's easy. I would say the point is not just "pushing forward", but thinking about both the future of success and the future of - quite probable - failure of a start-up initiative. Also, considering whether what you want to produce will better help humanity if you promote it via a commercial enterprise or a free/public-benefit initiative instead.