How do you bounce back when your launch fails entirely?
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I launched my side project yesterday. Received only four upvotes.
I spent the week preparing the launch video and writing what I thought was the perfect first comment. Then there was silence. I kept refreshing the page while other apps received, over three hundred votes in one hour.
It really drained my motivation to open the codebase today.
If you have experienced a launch that failed how do you overcome the embarrassment. Keep moving forward? Have you found users elsewhere?
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When we launched hrefStack, the result was mostly decided before launch day started. The product that placed top ten in our category that day went in with about four times our product followers, 187 against 42. Nothing we did in the comments could close that.
So I'd read four upvotes as a count of who already knew the project existed, and that's fixable. Who did you tell about it before launch day, and where?