How do you deal with the lack of feedback to your designs and general validation as a designer? I'm depressed to be honest...
How many people have built and listened to your designs? Of those peoplen one or two out of ten will comment.
How long have you been doing this? It takes years to build up a customer base.
Your own feedback is the one that really matters. If you do something expecting others to think you're great for doing it , without thinking it's great yourself, you're in trouble. Go find something else to do.
Who knows? Maybe you're one of the great ones, ahead of your time. There have been many who were not recognized until many years after they were no longer here. That didn't stop them from doing great things.
If it really bugs you. Go find something you love to do without caring what anyone else has to say about it.
If on the other hand , this complaint is about making money from your designs, then learn better what people actually want, and design a better one.
I've known chefs who expect that the customer should love their strawberry shortcake when they actually came into the restaurant looking for ham and eggs.
Who knows? Maybe you're one of the great ones, ahead of your time. There have been many who were not recognized until many years after they were no longer here. That didn't stop them from doing great things.
If it really bugs you. Go find something you love to do without caring what anyone else has to say about it.
If on the other hand , this complaint is about making money from your designs, then learn better what people actually want, and design a better one.
I've known chefs who expect that the customer should love their strawberry shortcake when they actually came into the restaurant looking for ham and eggs.
My dear bulgarian you probably live within a few hundred miles from me and I think you should understand one thing about this world: If you're not from USA, UK, Australia, Germany, France, Denmark, Swiss , Japan and maybe a small handfull of nordic countries, you don't exist as a designer, youtuber or anything else considered as to deserve appreciation attention for his efforts ...It doesn't matter what you do as long as you use your actual location for anything. It's as simple as that.Get used to it!
We have here in my hometown a luxury shoe factory.The owner was just a simple shoemaker doing his usual leather shoes as hundreds of shoemakers did before him.Then after the comunism fall he emmigrated to Vienna, worked there for 20 years as an employee...then opened his own repair shop, started to use his old shoe making techniques learned in my hometown decades ago.
He aquired some famous clients over the time , including Putin.Now he sells 4000 euros shoes while claiming he invented some special sawing technique which is false.I'm from a shoemaker familly myself and I know that techniques is at least 100 years old.10 years ago he opened a shoe factory in my hometown where he was born and employed about 20 peoples .Each of them makes about 2...4 pairs of shoes worth 2000...4000 euros every day. They get their wages after 2...3 months of work without payment.The owner lives most of the time in Vienna where he's selling the shoes while his employees couldn't buy a pair of those shoes they make every day with three months worth of wages even if they'd been paid monthly!!!
So it doesn't matter what you do, it matters where you're location is!
It happens that in this life I went once in Oxford.There I accidentally met an ex Sony engineer which was my best luck in this life.Working with him we landed one project to CES in 2016.
If I'd never left Romania I wouldn't have that luck .
You want success? Change location!Nothing really happens in Romania or Bulgaria except Elon Musk Haloween Party at "Dracula" s castle!
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It's not about money. It's about a purely emotional payoff. In my position it would be great to just convince someone to try to build something I designed.
I noticed some designers here don't receive a lot of feedback. I guess this is having to do with the project, not the person or the location or whatever. If you are into something non-mainstream, you may not attract many people naturally.
Maybe design the 1001st iteration of the blameless and folks will praise you for it like crazy.
In general, try to find satisfaction in what you do regardless of what other people think.
Many people are extremely dependent on positive feedback from others - getting clicks, "likes", "followers", being "influencers".
I can understand it is frustrating if apparently nobody cares about your stuff and often I feel the same.
However, in case somebody cares from time to time and provides some feedback, hints, tips, food for thought, I'm grateful.
Maybe design the 1001st iteration of the blameless and folks will praise you for it like crazy.
In general, try to find satisfaction in what you do regardless of what other people think.
Many people are extremely dependent on positive feedback from others - getting clicks, "likes", "followers", being "influencers".
I can understand it is frustrating if apparently nobody cares about your stuff and often I feel the same.
However, in case somebody cares from time to time and provides some feedback, hints, tips, food for thought, I'm grateful.
Well, I don't criticize your motivation. And the fact you know it is IMO a sign of an honest outlook and worth respect. Knowing why one is doing something is a prerequisite for knowing if it's worth the trouble. I believe most personal misery in the world can be blamed on misunderstanding one's own motivations.
What did you design that you want others to complement you on?
and maybe the fact that this is diy and everybody here is a designer. Who gets the notice is all about what they designed , ie. its applicability to members' interests, or just as important, how much those designers/members actually help other members.
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dreamth,
You must own good shoes, no make that great shoes! Also, what was your 2016 project at CES?
You must own good shoes, no make that great shoes! Also, what was your 2016 project at CES?
It wasn't my projects , my work was part of someone else's project.I usually bragg about it with names and links in personal messages, but I don't like to claim other's work , efforts so I always tell the exact part I did in that project to those I think are interested , but that's only to tell the full story and the full story was never my property...I'm the property of my accidental life most of the time.
I'm pretty sure everything and I mean absolutely everything in life has to do with your location.Even if you are the richest , most successful guy in Nigeria has to do with your location.He's having a nigerian type of success...Your success depends on the environrment you're in and for a decent guy that's not involved in illegal things, prostitution or politics is very hard to perform in a place that's not designed for your kind of act.The map found below speaks for itself related to the average guy success in life.Einstein lived in Germany and USA, not in Bulgaria.Tesla achieved his inventions in the USA not Eastern Europe.It's not just the social aspect it's also the infrastructure and economical environment that helps you achieve more than what you can do in some poor places.Of course you could do fine as a gypsy" manele "singer in Romania if you're really good , but electronics designers usually perform on an entire world's stage .Making copies or mods of/to anything doesn't make you a designer worth comments and I know some people that climbed that ladder, but that ladder is short, really short.
Warren Buffet said once that he was lucky enough to have lived his entire life in the USA and that he's pretty sure that he wouldn't be able to do a damn thing with his knowledge in Bangladesh.
https://landgeist.com/2021/10/29/th...2PZb8wlvvtzAZ09MGkT6DUFYLYcW7IWDTTIj-35qWmgws
I'm pretty sure everything and I mean absolutely everything in life has to do with your location.Even if you are the richest , most successful guy in Nigeria has to do with your location.He's having a nigerian type of success...Your success depends on the environrment you're in and for a decent guy that's not involved in illegal things, prostitution or politics is very hard to perform in a place that's not designed for your kind of act.The map found below speaks for itself related to the average guy success in life.Einstein lived in Germany and USA, not in Bulgaria.Tesla achieved his inventions in the USA not Eastern Europe.It's not just the social aspect it's also the infrastructure and economical environment that helps you achieve more than what you can do in some poor places.Of course you could do fine as a gypsy" manele "singer in Romania if you're really good , but electronics designers usually perform on an entire world's stage .Making copies or mods of/to anything doesn't make you a designer worth comments and I know some people that climbed that ladder, but that ladder is short, really short.
Warren Buffet said once that he was lucky enough to have lived his entire life in the USA and that he's pretty sure that he wouldn't be able to do a damn thing with his knowledge in Bangladesh.
https://landgeist.com/2021/10/29/th...2PZb8wlvvtzAZ09MGkT6DUFYLYcW7IWDTTIj-35qWmgws
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It supposed to be a general question, an invitation to share an experience 🙂 Basically for the first time I came to something I can be proud of. Mostly because of it's not very conventional architecture. I posted it recently: https://www.diyaudio.com/community/...et-class-a-amplifier-codenamed-cicada.390369/
Do it because you enjoy it, not to get followers as others have said. Also, the amount of people that can understand that design and provide meaningful feedback is small. I would keep posting, maybe sonic comparisons with other amps people may have heard would help to provide context.
easphyx,
To get more feedback, write about your projects on audiocircle, audio asylum, audiogon forum, and stereonet.
To get more feedback, write about your projects on audiocircle, audio asylum, audiogon forum, and stereonet.