My heart sank as I read this post and looked at the product. This has everything going against it.<p>First: Online comments are a notorious anti-feature on many sites. You&#x27;re basically making it so that they&#x27;re instantaneous and impossible to filter. Major sites have to do an enormous amount of human reading&#x2F;filtering just to have comment sections that aren&#x27;t filled with horrific, violent, sexual imagery[1].<p>Second: This is a B2C product. If your customers are users, then your customer-acquisition costs are high. If your customers aren&#x27;t users, then your customer-acquisition costs are still high, but your sky-high user-acquisition costs become fixed costs (you can no longer monetize your 1st user, but more like your 100,000th).<p>Third: Have you ever seen a live web chat on any site? These were popular in the late 90s as a drop-in feature that non-coders could use. They were absolutely full of filthy comments. I&#x27;ve seen chats that had 100+ messages per minute, and they were totally incomprehensible. That&#x27;s even without any professional-level trolls involved.<p>Fourth: If you think this was a good idea because a business guy and marketing guy liked it, then you need to take a look at every failed business. There&#x27;s almost always some sort of &quot;expert&quot; behind it. Even professional investors don&#x27;t know if ideas are good or not; only customers do. What customer discovery have you done?<p>My strong advice is to work at least part-time. Don&#x27;t go into debt for this. Get people to use it first, and then decide to put money into it. And if you can&#x27;t get anyone to use it or invest in it, it&#x27;s not because they &quot;don&#x27;t understand&quot;. It&#x27;s because this wasn&#x27;t a smart move.<p>I&#x27;m telling you all this as someone who&#x27;s been there before. I&#x27;ve failed at exactly this kind of business. It took a long time before my delusions finally evaporated and I saw that all the people warning me were right. It&#x27;s great to dream and be optimistic, but when you truly have a great business, people will give you money for it. If you don&#x27;t get money soon (investors or clients), move on.<p>1. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slate.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;xx_factor&#x2F;2014&#x2F;08&#x2F;11&#x2F;jezebel_to_gawker_media_do_something_about_the_violent_rape_gifs_in_our.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slate.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;xx_factor&#x2F;2014&#x2F;08&#x2F;11&#x2F;jezebel_to_g...</a>