That lesson may be the correct one to draw here. However, I could just as easily say that the lesson here is to abandon your web app, and write 10 more, until

That lesson may be the correct one to draw here. However, I could just as easily say that the lesson here is to abandon your web app, and write 10 more, until you "make it". No amount of lipstick will make a book with a boring plot shine, or a web app that doesn't fill a need, popular. I've abandoned three of them (web apps), and am working on a fourth, while you've been presumably, iterating and making yours more beautiful. Hopefully, we'll both win. As an aside, I was reminded, when I read the chronology, of all the money he lost as a wanna-be venture capitalist. He lost his fortune, dumping it into printing press designs that the engineers could never get the bugs out of. Too bad he didn't abandon that at some point...