Built something that demonstrably works. Nobody cares. What do I do? i will not promote

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5 years. A LOT of my own cash, few other shareholders that im not wanting to f over and walk away from, a product that speeds up data transfers over the internet. Im not gonna link it or name it here, not the point of this post. I'm losing my mind and need some reality checks from people who've been here. Here's the pattern: We demo the product. People go "oh wow, that's really cool." then nothing. Ghosted. Every. Single. Time. (RAGE....) yes we follow up. Talked to Microsoft. Talked to AWS. hey, we can speed up data transfer rates into your clouds. Think migrations**..** client needs to move BLA terabytes, you're telling them 4 weeks, we can help get that done way faster. Actually proved it: MS told a client 4 weeks for a migration. We helped them do it in 18 hours. 18 hours... Client goes back to MS. Crickets. Nobody gave a shit. Sales guys at these big companies? Don't care. Not their problem. Tech guys? "Oh that's cool" and then... that's the client's problem, not ours. Just picked up a new client actually. He found me because I replied to a Reddit post about data transfer speed. Got banned from that subreddit for it lol, ive asked him to reply to the post i got banned for to, but anyway.. this guy tracked me down anyway, installed the product, loves it. gets close to 100X improvement tells MS about it. crickets again. So I'm sitting here pulling my hair out, the thing works.... customers that use it love it, but I can't get the people who SHOULD care to actually care. The channel partners who'd benefit don't give a damn because it's not their line item. (i actually had one guys from a cloud say oh they going to transfer the data in, your only charging X, we not really going to make money out of it so not much point pushing it as it might divert or mess with the sale) Do I kill it? scale it back? keep beating my head against the wall?.. i advertise, but I get told na bro thats BS, you cant do that. I'm not looking for validation, I'm looking for honest advice. Has anyone broken through something like this? Or is this the part where you read the writing on the wall and just kill it ? sorry for the rage, but meh.   submitted by   /u/dorynz [link]   [comments]