I started working on the project (one that I'm currently working on) around the beginning of 2021. I stopped though after a month because the alpha version I made looked terrible (and got some mean reviews on places) and I thought maybe the product just doesn't fit in anywhere.

I got contacted by a few VCs, upon realizing my crappy project had some potential, I started working on it again, regularly started contacting the potential users, launched 3 private versions until July 2021. The bunch of users I had liked it but then... I stopped updating it and it eventually sorta died. I just couldn't get out of the private beta in time.

Stopped working on it for ~8 months. Recently got in a startup pipeline program of a large accelerator for this project which made me realize how stupid I am to keep throwing cool opportunities that come my way.

So, now I'm back at it hoping to get out of that grim cycle of not shipping on time. I've got the 2.0 version of my project in works shipping later this month.

And, luckily enough, all those old private users (and new developers I started contacting again) really do want to get their hands on the 2.0 version.

Hopefully, this ends well for a "shipping story".