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How do I handle nasty comments from customers on the software that I built

Just as most of programmers here, I've spent days and nights on building the software that it is today. Sometimes I get nasty comments from my customers about how my software sucks. I cannot replicate the problem that they're experiencing and they don't respond to my follow up emails.

How do other indie hackers handle this? Should I have the "Haters gonna hate" mentality or "Ok. I suck. What should I do now" mentality?

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Growth
on March 30, 2024
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    As @hatkyinc points out, it's them not you. That's the way some people are when they encounter a problem.

    In your role as customer support you need to show empathy without becoming emotionally involved in the situation yourself. That's the best way you can help them.

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    It's about them not about you. Someone killed thier pet earlier in the day or something, who knows, bad childhood, taken advantage off, never learned more than the first 1,000 words in school, ignore the language.

    Only counter to software issues I know is tracking and testing tools. Backend and frontend APM reporting, automated testing that includes blocking normal things like JS or some of your subdomains or 3rd party subdomains, especially if it's for businesses. There are tracking tools that lets you reply full sessions, all mouse movement and keyboard and sometimes even show rendering gaps (most won't, but you might notice clicking at the wrong place reloads the page). Anything can and will break at some point, silly filters, incompatible browsers, software and devices that act differently just on that one little thing. Out of memory and network issues. Even if their home electricity is spiky it would be your fault your software renders weird lines on the screen.

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      It's just a tough pill to swallow when someone goes at your software. The growth mindset is hard to have here.

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        Pick some of your favourite stuff and go read the worst reviews on them

        Just an idea

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