Long time to comment, but just wanted to say how much I appreciate all the time and effort you (and others!) put in to this. I think Mike K raises a valid point, but agree the perception of value is a really, really hard nut to crack and is the bigger roadblock. Folks just want something that gives them what they perceive as comparables for comparables, and in this case it’s a really big hump.

I hope, if nothing else, what you took away from the experience is valuable. I have lots of lessons learned from the original product and the kind of commitment that’s required to get it off the ground, and it’ll definitely help the next time around.

Thanks again for making a go of it, and I’m sorry it didn’t work out better in the end.

k

The situation in general does tend to reinforce my belief that a lot of the “Software X can’t do Y, therefore we can’t use it” stuff you get is pretext, reasons you pull out to justify an already-made decision. Because it turns out that if you really want to use X, somehow Y doesn’t matter anymore (see the prevalence of iPhones in corporate America despite it lacking all the stuff that Blackberry admins assured us it would need); and if you don’t want to use X and it can do Y, you’ll just invent reason Z.

I’ve been keeping an eye on this project and I’d just like to say well done for trying. I can’t say I sympathize with the specifics, but I can definitely sympathize in the general with your situation.

Again, well done and good luck on your future endeavours.