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What were the complaints?
Mostly about how the UI sucks, which I agree with but I don't have a creative UX skills. I'm mostly a data/business logic person.
I think finding an existing audience or building one through teaching are a better approach than building first.
Talk to potential users using open ended unbiased questions is important. When you get specific with questions or features, you end of creating a bias that will only give you bad data and set you up for potential failure.
https://www.failory.com/ collects startup founders' failure stories. For me personally it was luckily only domain and some hosting costs. The biggest investment was and will be time spent (opportunity cost to work or freelance on other projects).
Like Edison said, "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
Sometimes, you learn the most through failures.