Why We Abandoned 18 Months of Product Development: Lessons from Multiple Startup Pivots

Summary

A startup team shares their experience of developing a product for 18 months, acquiring clients, and then deciding to abandon everything. They discuss their history of multiple pivots (enterprise search, documentation generation, coding agent, QA testing platform) and how they finally started getting customers and raised funding on their last pivot. The article focuses on explaining why they're throwing away 18 months of work, what they learned from the experience, and what alternative direction they've chosen instead.