It's okay to make something nobody wants.

I wasted a lot of my life being too scared to make something out of fear. This community especially can be very toxic to people that are starting out, that aren't geniuses, that didnt make every perfect decision for their product.

Life is more enjoyable in a create-fail-learn loop than a consume-criticize-gloat loop.

I wish I'd learned that sooner.

(taken from hackernews)

Well, people - especially the arrogant ones - tend to forget that everyone was a noob once.

Sometimes you don't need a lot of people using the software or product. For those who use it, it will be perfect.

I do it too. Just start making it. You will learn from it no matter what.

being criticized is part of the learning loop. There's rarely anything new to learn without other peoples experiences and opinions. Just can't get demotivated because of couple fucktards who don't have the intelligence to build coherent feedbacks so they fallback to insults, which is probably the only feedback they were even given by their parents anyway.

the most important thing of something you make is, that you yourself find it useful. Everything else is a bonus.

That's my mentality about that stuff.

You have no idea how many genuises I have seen "taking over" a project and tanking it to the fucking ground.

Or someone getting greedy instead of building new products and driving away their core audience they built the platform off on.

But it's fair, it took me 5+ years to realize this as well.

"Hey, management is a bunch of retards who think what people want and what they don't want. And oh yeah, TAKE MORE MONEY from your customers."

The fact that people have opinions, does not mean you have to listen to them.

If something is fun or rewarding to you (and is legal): just do it! Who cares whether it's used or if it's any good? As long as you got what you wanted from it, fuck other people's opinions.