Title: A few years ago, I wanted to make a product, but I wasn&#x27;t very technical. So I decided to change that--I got technical. My problem is that I&#x27;m embarrassed of what I make. Intellectually, I know that I shouldn&#x27;t be bothered by this. I don&#x27;t have a huge team of VC-backed employees burning money to make a perfect thing. It&#x27;s just me. But I&#x27;m tired of being shit on by my friends and family. According to my family, programmers are just &quot;coder monkeys,&quot; people you hire to make your grand idea and <i>that&#x27;s how it&#x27;s done</i>. Friends look at me like I&#x27;m a lesser person because I&#x27;m not out to work for the most prestigious company like they are. I want to make a tool for small businesses, I want to do it profitably, and I want to be proud of it.<p>How do you deal with people saying, &quot;That&#x27;s it? Anybody could have done that in a couple weeks!&quot; Maybe that&#x27;s true! Maybe I&#x27;m not a very good product maker! But I want to be, and you&#x27;ve gotta start somewhere, right? Combine all of the above with a case of worsening depression and it&#x27;s hard for me to stay motivated and it&#x27;s hard to keep defending myself. I also worry about what I&#x27;ll do if this doesn&#x27;t work. Does anyone have any advice? How do you do it?
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