> the biggest risk to the project wasn't that the code was poor but rather that no one would want the thing that I had set out to build. Except for deliberatel

> the biggest risk to the project wasn't that the code was poor but rather that no one would want the thing that I had set out to build. Except for deliberately bad ideas, this is almost never true. There's always at least one other person that would find value in something someone is putting effort into building. What people actually mean to say is that the cost is higher than any realistic plans to monetize a project. A project where someone could make 30-40k per year in a country with a low cost of living would be a complete success for an individual where they get complete autonomy, job security, good work life balance, working remotely. But that same project would be a complete disaster for Google where that employee alone costs 4-5x in pure cash let alone stocks.