Yo - instead of making fun of people's ideas - HELP THEM OUT and give them feedback!

I get where you're coming from, but I doubt that this is the best attitude:

Personally, I'm still excited as hell, and I'm using all of their mockery to someday say "hey, you know that idea you made fun of me about? look at me now you sour miserable prick!"

As much as people should be more constructive and friendly with their criticisms, such is life. It's very tempting to get absorbed into a project and get tunnel vision. Many people waste away years working on a side project that never goes anywhere because those around them were too hesitant to give some healthy criticism.

Of course we get excited about our own web development projects....don't expects others to be. Even completed, polished projects often wind up abandoned. It might not even be because the creator did a bad job, it might just be bad luck or another competitor came along and did it better.

I'm not saying you shouldn't be excited about learning or that those around you shouldn't be supportive, but honest criticism is vital to success and to knowing what's worth your time.

If your motivation is to show-up people who doubted you, then you're focusing on the wrong things. Work-life balance is especially vital for us developers and many of us will inevitably fail on the way to making "The Next Big App" so don't base your identity or your self-worth on the success of a side project.

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