> Are you trying to debate them back into working on the project?

No, I think the project was based on wrong assumptions (strategy) and poorly executed.

I am merely putting constructive ideas out there.

I don’t think you are. You have a very utilitarian set of ideas, where optimization towards some unspecified goal of commercial success is the objective, and everything else is deemed ‘lack of strategy’, or ‘poor’.

> You have a very utilitarian set of ideas, where optimization towards some unspecified goal of commercial success is the objective, and everything else is deemed ‘lack of strategy’, or ‘poor’.

Their strategy was to provide free UX enhancements for commercial companies. When they are against the commercial web!

Success does not have to be commercial. It can be about non-monetary impact. They had 800 users and tells themselves "launching letsblock.it and keeping it running for over two years is a big success in my book". Claiming that outcome as a big success is odd and I don't know that the author is learning from failure. When they can say to themselves "I failed in my mission, let me learn from it," I think they will have a larger chance to grow, be more successful, have bigger impact.

“constructive ideas” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here in ignoring your lack of empathy. i am always amazed by the people that provide “constructive ideas”, and then fail to take any “constructive ideas” from others.

you are failing in the same way as the original author by your own metric

> “constructive ideas” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here in ignoring your lack of empathy.

Empathy can be “nice” but does not necessarily mean it is helpful, and can sometimes even be harmful.

When you care about someone, but fail to challenge them directly you are not helping them, you just coddle them.