i quit

i’ve gotten 2 tiktoks with 10k+ views so far and hundreds of comments and shares altogether combined

plus a few waitlist signups from all of that

all of this without even showing the app yet

so i can’t really say that i’ve failed at validating the market right now

but somehow for some reason i can’t get myself to ship a complete solution

i’d be lying to you if i said that i didn’t feel ashamed or guilty writing this but the simplest answer i could come up with is that i do not care about the problem space enough

i thought that being the boyfriend of someone who has this issue meant that i’d be emotionally invested enough and that having access to my girlfriend meant designing the app would feel easy but i was so wrong

i feel drained by having to answer all of the comments

i feel drained by having to solve some major roadblocks and knowing that ultimately i’m not going to use the app myself gives me such a lack of confidence in what i am building because i’m not intimately familiar with the problem space

the biggest thing is that i do not have emotional resonance with the experience of having to journal endometriosis - i do not know how painful it or if it’s a painful problem at all. like i genuinely don’t know how cumbersome it is (or even if it is at all) for some women to keep a daily journal for their endometriosis

even if i did my research on reddit and reading a lot of things that were descriptive enough, i somehow don’t relate or connect enough with their problem

this is painful to admit: i do not care enough

and i don’t have all of the answers right now

but the clearest path to failure is to work on a problem that i don’t care enough about

and that is one thing i’m very clear about at the current moment

i need to find something i care more about