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For the past few months, I've been building Marv, a little Windows companion that sits around your cursor and helps you understand what's on your screen. You can ask it questions, get spoken answers, and have it draw arrows, circles and annotations to explain things visually. It's a product I've put a huge amount of time, effort and money into. I've built it from the ground up, worked on the website, put together promotional videos, built a waitlist and tried to get the word out wherever I could. There have been plenty of late nights, and I've genuinely enjoyed seeing something that started as an idea turn into a real product. But the past few days haven't gone how I expected. I was originally planning to launch this Friday. However, I started noticing clues suggesting that Hey Clicky, a product in the same space, might be releasing its Windows version around the same time. I have no way of knowing for certain when they planned to release it, and I have no reason to believe they knew anything about my plans. But with the possibility of us launching on the same day, I started worrying about how difficult it would be to get Marv noticed. I panicked a little and decided to bring my launch forward to yesterday. Maybe that was the right decision, maybe it wasn't. I honestly don't know. What I do know is that the results have been pretty disappointing so far. I had around 250 people on the waitlist before launch. I was genuinely excited about that number. Every person who signed up felt like someone who saw potential in what I was building. Since launching, I've had around 15 actual sign-ups. I know it's only been a day, and I know 15 people isn't zero. But I'd be lying if I said it hadn't knocked my confidence a bit. When you're building something on your own, it's easy to get caught up imagining what it could become. You spend hours fixing problems nobody else sees, making tiny improvements, worrying about things that probably don't matter to anyone but you, and putting money into something before you have any real guarantee it'll work. You do all of that because you believe in the idea. Then launch day comes, and suddenly you're faced with the reality that getting people interested in an idea and getting them to actually use your product are two completely different things. Seeing a competitor potentially entering the same market makes that uncertainty even harder to deal with. I think I'm just struggling with the question of whether the work I'm putting in is going to lead anywhere. I'm doing this alongside university, without a team behind me, trying to figure out product development, marketing, distribution and everything else that comes with building a startup. Some days it's exciting. Other days, it feels like I'm trying to figure out a hundred things at once and getting nowhere with any of them. Part of me wants to keep going, improve Marv, listen t

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  • 发布时间：2026/10/14 09:18:50