I'm afraid to show the world a tool which built to solve a billion dollar issue

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Post by GhoshAnkit » Mon, Oct 03, 2022, 7:58 PM UTC

Just completed building a tool which will solve a billion dollar issue with literally zero competitors, but I feel afraid to show it to the world.

I afraid how people will react and this makes anxious. What to do?

Re: I'm afraid to show the world a tool which built to solve a billion dollar issue

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Post by smoldesu » Mon, Oct 03, 2022, 7:58 PM UTC

License it under GPL and distribute it to as many people as possible. If you're lucky, it might turn into a 10 billion dollar tool.

Re: I'm afraid to show the world a tool which built to solve a billion dollar issue

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Post by nathanaldensr » Mon, Oct 03, 2022, 8:00 PM UTC

Without any more context, I'm not sure how you expect to get serious answers to your question. "Billion dollar issue" is hopelessly vague.

Re: I'm afraid to show the world a tool which built to solve a billion dollar issue

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Post by RichardCNormos » Mon, Oct 03, 2022, 8:00 PM UTC

You're probably more afraid of being wrong about your assessment of the situation. What's worse: people criticize your work, or nobody cares?

Show off your work. Advocate for yourself. If you worked hard on something, you damn well should be proud of it.

Re: I'm afraid to show the world a tool which built to solve a billion dollar issue

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Post by GhoshAnkit » Mon, Oct 03, 2022, 8:01 PM UTC

nathanaldensr wrote: post #3

Without any more context, I'm not sure how you expect to get serious answers to your question. "Billion dollar issue" is hopelessly vague.

Actually, not vague. So, there's a tool which 60% of companies use, and it has one major issue which has a fix but is very hard and is unlikely that they'll fix.

I just built a data layer to solve this.

Re: I'm afraid to show the world a tool which built to solve a billion dollar issue

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Post by falak-sher » Mon, Oct 03, 2022, 8:02 PM UTC

Is it the next AirBnB or a Google Analytics for EU?

Re: I'm afraid to show the world a tool which built to solve a billion dollar issue

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Post by GhoshAnkit » Mon, Oct 03, 2022, 8:02 PM UTC

smoldesu wrote: post #2

License it under GPL and distribute it to as many people as possible. If you're lucky, it might turn into a 10 billion dollar tool.

The thing is, I'm more worried about loosing.

Re: I'm afraid to show the world a tool which built to solve a billion dollar issue

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Post by GhoshAnkit » Mon, Oct 03, 2022, 8:04 PM UTC

RichardCNormos wrote: post #4

You're probably more afraid of being wrong about your assessment of the situation. What's worse: people criticize your work, or nobody cares? Show off your work. Advocate for yourself. If you worked hard on something, you damn well should be proud of it.

Thanks, Richard, I've been gazing by landing page for days, I guess it's finally time to show the world.

Maybe I need to be open about loosing and facing criticism.

Re: I'm afraid to show the world a tool which built to solve a billion dollar issue

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 03, 2022, 8:04 PM UTC

GhoshAnkit wrote: post #7

smoldesu wrote: post #2

License it under GPL and distribute it to as many people as possible. If you're lucky, it might turn into a 10 billion dollar tool.

The thing is, I'm more worried about loosing.

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Re: I'm afraid to show the world a tool which built to solve a billion dollar issue

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Post by Nomentatus » Mon, Oct 03, 2022, 8:05 PM UTC

If it's a real advance expect manure and misunderstanding for a while - we have the record of what bystanders said as they watched Fulton's steamship being built and it wasn't pretty. Everyone knew it couldn't work, was madness, etc. Twas a good day in my life, long ago, when I realized that anxiety couldn't actually kill me. Bite the bullet. But steel man your product as best you can and anticipate whatever technical difficulties might arise first, of course.

Ordinary advice, but it's an ever-recurring, ordinary-enough situation historically.