Joshua Heath Scott on successful bands:

When you’re furious that another entity is successful, when you’re convinced they cheated, when you can’t stop picking apart how they did it , that fury is almost never about them. It’s about you.

I know this because I’ve felt it. Every successful founder has. You watch someone else’s thing take off and your brain, being a survival machine, immediately generates a story that protects your ego. They had rich parents. They knew someone. They hired an agency. They sold out. They got lucky. Anything, anything at all, that lets you avoid the harder question.

The harder question is: does anyone want what I’m making?

Not “should they want it.” Not “would they want it if they knew about me.” Does anyone actually want it? Have I made something people want to buy? Have I made music people want to listen to? Have I made anything that connects to a real human need or desire, or am I making something for myself and expecting the world to applaud?

The same could be said of software.