No problem at all! I understand too. This stuff has a way of making us cranky. Probably because the success part of getting people to use something isn't as formulaic as building something. I quit my career in chemical engineering because I wanted that structure of the computer. The mess of how chemicals react drove me nuts. And then I just find myself in the mess of human psychology and "chemistry" :) Oh well.

For what it's worth, even with this non-tech, hand wavey stuff, I try and share as much tactic and followable strategy as I can. That point in here about asking "Can I buy you a virtual cup of coffee" that worked so well. Everyone I've emailed with that subject line has opened that email and taken me up on it. Got some great meetings.

But still at the end, there's no guarantee those meetings will create any immediate wealth. But like I said earlier, from so much of life I feel like most of us who have the capability to get on a computer and read this stuff on this message board, eventually we can figure out an angle to making money from the stuff we want to.

It's not maybe exactly your dream but I keep finding ways to make it work. For example, maybe your software product just doesn't turn out to be the SaaS app you get 1000 people paying $100 a month for. But with enough giving up, trying some new variation, testing again, we find what does sell. Maybe it's selling licenses as one off installs for big banks, or doing consulting in the same domain. If you love the domain of your product, there's so much room for the actual original product idea to suck, but find something tangential that you still love to work on.

And those books I mention in the article about Blue Ocean Strategy and Something Really New are mind opening on how to design a product. Draft was all about analyzing tasks we have as writers and removing steps. It wasn't overnight, but was a key way I thought about the product design that led to some great usage.