You could not have gotten these guys more wrong. They are serious technologists who have been working day and night for years to build something that they deepl

You could not have gotten these guys more wrong. They are serious technologists who have been working day and night for years to build something that they deeply believe in. Every hacker's heart should be warmed by the fact that they kept at it. When you have a vision of something great that ought to exist and set about bringing it into the world, you are in an isolated position: other people don't yet see what you see. This leads to a lot of doubt by others and by yourself too. The longer it takes, the more exposed you are. To make it through that you are going to need a deeper source of motivation – an underground spring. Love is a fine word for this, and it makes me happy that Slava put it in his title: it's a clue to this experience that rarely gets mentioned, especially in the land of pivots and MVPs and weekend hacks.