For my very first attempt at online success, I spent the entirety of my 8 weeks of Easter holidays back in 2000 working my nuts off on a prototype that ended up not bringing one penny of return and was blasted out in just one presentation (though I learnt some powerful lessons in the process of failing miserably).
Seriously man, grow some skin. Wtf? "I feel incredibly sad that I wasted a few hours doing something that I can't see any value in, in hindsight"? I mean come on.
I'm really not trying to be overly harsh, but if you can't take the emotional turmoil of wasting a few hours on a harebrained idea, then you might want to bury yourself in a coffin filled with cotton, because this world is too harsh for you. Life is full of defeats and failures - and that's when everything goes well. A life without setbacks would be as bland and boring as an over-boiled cabbage leaf.
Have any other hackers ever spent time on something they genuinely wanted to create, only to feel completely empty after they actually create it?
If you've not done that a 100 million times, you really shouldn't call yourself a "hacker" - or even a "man", for that matter.
PS: Otoh, if you have a tendency to go through very deep/high ups and downs with no apparent relationship with reality, you might want to get yourself checked for bipolar disorder.
8 weeks? Try 8 months of feverish work and in the end, nothing came from it. Sure, I know now that it probably was a wasted effort as a product, but as a learning experience, it was invaluable. Failure is a part of life. You're right. You have to get over it and keep producing. Seriously, man up
Seriously man, grow some skin. Wtf? "I feel incredibly sad that I wasted a few hours doing something that I can't see any value in, in hindsight"? I mean come on.
I'm really not trying to be overly harsh, but if you can't take the emotional turmoil of wasting a few hours on a harebrained idea, then you might want to bury yourself in a coffin filled with cotton, because this world is too harsh for you. Life is full of defeats and failures - and that's when everything goes well. A life without setbacks would be as bland and boring as an over-boiled cabbage leaf.
Have any other hackers ever spent time on something they genuinely wanted to create, only to feel completely empty after they actually create it?
If you've not done that a 100 million times, you really shouldn't call yourself a "hacker" - or even a "man", for that matter.
PS: Otoh, if you have a tendency to go through very deep/high ups and downs with no apparent relationship with reality, you might want to get yourself checked for bipolar disorder.
PPS: Oh, and btw, it's dilemma.