I guess I have the perspective of hindsight. When I launched the top comment was this

That hurt like a motherfucker

Then when I replied that was followed by this

double sting.

Then again it doesn’t matter cause the next most upvoted comment was this

Or even another great one was this one

Now lets ignore the fact that I had spent 8 months of my life making this, or the fact that I had poured my heart into it. I could and post more twitter examples, but what’s the point, just more negative criticism.

How could I dare to make something that was not as good as google? Or sites that had been up for years? Why should I even try?

Well, I’m actually very glad that they took the time to comment and tell me how absolutely useless my application was, and how there are so many alternatives.

I love the negative comments, why you might ask? It pissed me off to a point where I’m not sure I would of kept working on it if it wasn’t for the simple fact to prove them wrong.

Clearly there must of been something to it, because well…

Yeah my feelings where hurt, but clearly I was onto something. If it wasn’t for the negative views, I can’t say I would of kept working on it with this grudge on my shoulder, so in the end you need the bad with the good, motivation has to come from somewhere you can either take the negative criticism and say “that’s right random person on the Internet was right, I should just give up” or you can say “I built this, and regardless of what people think, I did it for me, I think I’m right, something is missing”