A little background. For the last 1.5 years I lost what could be considered an embarrassing amount of money hiring other people to work on a project that I thought had potential, I got some important people involved, had some great coders, but couldn't launch. The failure was depressing, rejection by YC didn't help.. I had to take a job, I didn't enjoy and I had a girlfriend who stood by me despite going into debt.
But bouncing back over the last 45 days I've taught myself Rails some Jquery, and Javascript and built this www.hangout.io. It's empowering to build something myself because I'm dedicated to it. It's wonderful to build a skill that will contribute to greater success. Sure, this project has some flaws, some bugs.. it needs a mobile application, there are some things people don't understand.. But hell I launched and there are tangible things I can do to improve it.
I wanted to share it with hacker news cause now I feel I finally belong :)
But bouncing back over the last 45 days I've taught myself Rails some Jquery, and Javascript and built this www.hangout.io. It's empowering to build something myself because I'm dedicated to it. It's wonderful to build a skill that will contribute to greater success. Sure, this project has some flaws, some bugs.. it needs a mobile application, there are some things people don't understand.. But hell I launched and there are tangible things I can do to improve it.
I wanted to share it with hacker news cause now I feel I finally belong :)