Ask HN: What is your failed/cancelled project story?

Post by ElCapitanMarkla » Sat, May 14, 2022, 12:52 PM UTC

smartties wrote: post #4

I was working on a game part-time for 1 year. The game is mix of Factorio + Stardeus ( https://store.steampowered.com/app/1358970/Cyber_Factories/ ). After releasing an early demo on Steam, the game seemed to be of little interest to anybody (only 1300 wishlists after one year). I had two publishers reaching to me, but their funding offers were too low for me to consider working full time on the game and ship a finis…

Post by wizwit999 » Sun, May 15, 2022, 2:57 AM UTC

duped wrote: post #10

I worked at a startup with a sick product that wowed every person we demoed it to, from investors to users to consumers that would see it on their devices. It was ahead of its time, now all the major phone manufacturers have their own variation baked into their OS. It failed for a few reasons, none overtly technical. The product was feature complete by the time we ran out of funding. All we needed was someone to pay…