What It Feels Like To Promote Your Prototype To Get Feedback

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What It Feels Like To Promote Your Prototype To Get Feedback

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Behold, the perfect visualization of showing your prototype to the world—a literal trash possum desperately trying to convince people to try its creation. Nothing says "I know it's rough around the edges but please just give it a chance" quite like a wild animal screaming from inside a garbage bin. The duality of feeling like your project is simultaneously your precious baby AND absolute garbage that you're weirdly protective about. That moment when you've spent 47 sleepless nights on your "revolutionary" game/app/website and deep down you know it's held together with duct tape and prayers, but you're still out there hustling like a garbage marsupial.

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