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I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea

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851 points swyx | 1 comments | 18 Jan 21 20:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.414s | source
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Luvnit ◴[19 Jan 21 03:27 UTC] No.25829675[source]▶
You say “ So I built something people wanted. Consumers wanted it, doctors wanted it, I wanted it. Where did I go wrong?”

The fact that the people giving you the money I.e doctors / hospitals didn’t want to pay for your product proves you built something no one wanted. Wanted enough that they were willing to pay you money for it. Or go out of the way to find the budget for it.

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1. Aperocky ◴[19 Jan 21 05:48 UTC] No.25830428[source]▶
Nah, everyone wanted it, but for free.

I think the only thing that went wrong is the budgeting, OP might have made it had he dumbed it down a little and made it 100x more simple (on the backend).