What ideas have you implemented that have failed, and why?
In the "What ideas do you regret not implementing?" thread, Maurycy suggested turning it around and asking "What ideas have you implemented that have failed anyways?" After all, most of us are more worried about the risk that we'll work our asses off building something cool and then find nobody likes it rather than the risk that we'll never get started at all. I agree with maurycy that this is a far more interesting question, so I took the liberty of submitting this as a discussion topic. Please be more specific than "Because there was no market for it" - that's obvious, why wasn't there a market for it (or turning it around, why'd you implement it if there was no market), and how does it differ from projects you've done that have succeeded.
Why it failed
In the "What ideas do you regret not implementing?" thread, Maurycy suggested turning it around and asking "What ideas have you implemented that have failed anyways?" After all, most of us are more worried about the risk that we'll work our asses off building something cool and t
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- nostrademons
- Ended
- 2007
- Source
- hackernews