Challenges of the Startup Yesterday

Summary

The startup faced challenges with their recent launch of the "Department of Common Sense," which, despite initial excitement, received mixed reactions, leading to reflection and a commitment to continue providing advice.

Abstract

The article discusses the startup's latest initiative, the "Department of Common Sense," which aimed to offer valuable advice and was met with mixed reactions. While the piece garnered attention within the Medium community, it failed to resonate with the general public. The author admits to being hurt by the negative feedback, particularly a comment dismissing the project as "crap," but intends to use this as motivation to produce more content. The author also invites readers to subscribe for updates on their work and promotes an AI service as a cost-effective alternative to ChatGPT Plus.

Opinions

The author initially anticipated that the "Department of Common Sense" would be immediately embraced due to its perceived necessity.
The article's lack of popularity outside of Medium was unexpected and prompted the author to inspect engagement statistics.
Negative feedback, such as being called a "Mr. Know-it-all," was taken to heart by the author, affecting their feelings and influencing their writing process.
Despite the criticism, the author remains committed to sharing their insights and advice, indicating a resilient attitude towards content creation.
The author sees value in writing with "hurt feelings," suggesting it may enhance productivity or creativity.
A promotional tone is used to encourage readers to subscribe to the author's Medium stories and join a community for more content.
The author endorses an AI service, ZAI.chat, as a more affordable option compared to ChatGPT Plus, implying it offers similar performance and functions.

Forces us to take some time off today.

We engineered a nice, introductory story explaining its inception, and tried to reflect the general excitement here at the possibilities.

The story was not met with totally encouraging approval. We were sure that something so needed in this world be immediately embraced by readers.

On inspection of the stats (as I do frequently) we discovered the article was fairly popular among our fellow Mediumites, but bombed-out entirely out in the public.

One remark I recall in particular from an outsider was “We don’t need this kind of crap, Mr. Know-it-all,” and that one did sting a bit.

As I said before “I seem to write faster with hurt feelings,” so I intend to double down with this much-needed advice.

Thank you for now!

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