Our startup has been roasted

You work for months on your project, submit it to HN/REDDIT/X, and voilà, you're featured on the front page.

Everything seems to work as planned... until the dream turns into a nightmare:

People tell you that your landing page sucks and doesn't convey what you do.

People are reaching out to you on Twitter to tell you that the pricing is ridiculous and that no one will ever pay this outrageous price.

People yell at you because they need to register to check it out.

You've lost months (years?) of your life working on your project. Seeing people destroying it is hard. Very hard.

I needed to take some days off.

Once I've swallowed the pill, I needed to acknowledge that receiving harsh feedback is hard. For everyone. But harsh doesn't mean false.

Following the recurring feedback that I've received, I decided to change everything.

Today, Revolv has become Scaffold an open-source company.

We've changed everything from pricing to visual identity, and we're now featured on Reddit with more than 60 upvotes (our previous attempt with Revolv has made 0).

https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/

Startups are hard. Never give up.