You are very lucky. Overestimating (and therefore overselling) technology is extremely common. It really takes experience being burnt a couple of times to real

You are very lucky. Overestimating (and therefore overselling) technology is extremely common. It really takes experience being burnt a couple of times to realize there are no silver bullets - only trade offs. Engineers tend to perpetuate myths that you could stumble on great technology, develop a product based on it, and blow everyone else out of the water. Without experience you couldn't have known things don't happen that way. When beautiful, elegant ideas interact with the realities of delivering a product, things get messy and complicated. Every successful high tech product I'm aware of started this way. You now have the skills and the experience to recognize it. I think your experience is perfectly natural. Thank heavens for the education you've received, but do not get discouraged - that's how technology products always start. You have to find your first adopter - some high tech people who wouldn't mind parting with some money in exchange for broken technology, so that you could keep polishing it until it's usable for many people. I highly recommend you to read Crossing The Chasm. The book demystifies this process and explains how you can intricately balance the company to get past it.