And all I got was this lousy embedded player

> My superpower is being vague and mysterious. Unfortunately these people in particular are very paranoid and anti-social and have a strong distrust.

I appreciate the effort, but I think not clicking on untrusted links from random emails is common sense these days.

Too many scams out there unfortunately, and "let’s build the future together" sounds like a typical crypto/web3 email scam.

I like the idea with the flyers though.

> I am aware that it won’t happen. [...] No one cares and I should just fuck off. [...] I’m also sure that if anyone ran the code themselves they’d see immediate success and traction. [...] I’m sure no one is reading this either.

You're being unnecessarily hard on yourself, many people have faced the same problems before [0].

"You work on a project that does not deliver immediate or steady results; all the while, people around you work on projects that do. You are in trouble. Such is the lot of scientists, artists, and researchers lost in society rather than living in an insulated community or an artist colony." [1]

You're trying to gain your first users in a space with a lot of competitors. Reading a business book would be more helpful than beating yourself up.

"The common wisdom was that it was more or less impossible to bring a new IM network to market without spending an extraordinary amount of money on marketing. The reason for that wisdom is simple. Because of the power of network effects, IM products have high switching costs. To switch from one network to another, customers would have to convince their friends and colleagues to switch with them." [2]

> "Our customers were not intimidated by the idea of having to take their friends with them to a new IM network; it turned out that they enjoyed that challenge."

[0]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/reddi...

[1]: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (ISBN 978-0713999952)

[2]: The Lean Startup (ISBN 978-0307887894)

Trying to get in the habit of blogging not quite building in public but inspired by that a little idk tell me how much you think i'm stupid in the comments