When the reasons you originally believe the project could (not necessarily would or even probably would) succeed become invalid, you should stop investing in it

When the reasons you originally believe the project could (not necessarily would or even probably would) succeed become invalid, you should stop investing in it. To answer your question someone would have to know what those original reasons were. As some say, what's your "secret sauce". It looks to me like a twitter for geeks. The problem is that being twitter is already for geeks, and I don't see any benefit in being in a more exclusive communication channel. When you say "fair chance" to me it sounds as though you think there's a community of intelligent people who give websites scrutiny proportional to the effort the authors have put in. This kind of attitude is almost always going to lead to disappointment. The internet is more like a herd of lazy, selfish people looking for ways to do less boring stuff and more fun stuff. You might do better optimizing for that scenario. edit: I originally had a critique of your site here but it wasn't strictly relevant and this post is too long.