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sales were not terrible, but they were about 10x worse than I was hoping for.
I took the "focus on the product, customers will come" aphorism a bit too literally.
Marketing does not magically happen yet it's easy to ignore.
Obviously i knew this but it took experiencing it myself to fully believe it. Hard lesson.
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sales were not terrible, but they were about 10x worse than I was hoping for.
I took the "focus on the product, customers will come" aphorism a bit too literally.
Marketing does not magically happen yet it's easy to ignore.
Obviously i knew this but it took experiencing it myself to fully believe it. Hard lesson.