The first web site I launched - I guess you could call it a start-up, though I didn't seek funding and tried to profit off of ads - had a bunch of criticisms, a

The first web site I launched - I guess you could call it a start-up, though I didn't seek funding and tried to profit off of ads - had a bunch of criticisms, all of them true. Stuff like "This drop-down menu doesn't actually drop down" and "Your background is the exact color of my puking macaroni and cheese" and "I don't think 'error mySQL injection' counts as a web site." People would write stories and blog posts starring themselves valiantly killing me and freeing the users of the site. That was a fun project. My current one hasn't publicly launched yet; the only complaint I've had is that the font looks icky on Internet Explorer. (We use Times New Roman as our base, tweaked to look nice; it actually looks quite good on everything other than IE. We might inject CSS that changes the font to Verdana or Helvetica, but most fonts in IE look pretty bad.) I did get a nice insult thread on Hacker News from one guy who told me something like "You're wasting your youth on a shitty idea that nobody likes" without knowing what my startup was.