Great tips Dalia!
Thanks for sharing.
I would also add a few things that came to my mind while reading the story.
\-- It's one of the biggest mistakes in new projects to not validate your project's idea before spending sooo much time working on it.
Naturally, most people would like to keep their awesome new project ideas close to their chest, work on it for a year or two, release it, just to discover that no one actually needs it.
The earlier you reveal it, the better.
Don't worry about people stealing it.
Ideas are cheap, it's all about how you implement them.
Also, the earlier you get feedback on your idea, the earlier you can steer your project in the right direction.
\-- "There are no stupid questions, just stupid answers"
This is especially the case if you are working on something lightning related or nostr related.
There are still a lot of use cases that we yet have to figure out the best way to approach them.
& the learning materials are still unfortunately too scarce. (That was one of the main reasons of creating bolt.fun)
So asking, & sharing with others will push the boundaries of what's possible, & make us reach the best solutions needed for mass adoption.
\-- It's VERY VERY VERY important that you continue working on your project after the tournament's ends.
The tournament end is not supposed to be your project's end, but its start.
Tournaments are just to give people some extra motivation to start working on that idea that they have putting aside for too long, & getting a chance to share it with other makers.
There are several projects who didn't "win" in the previous tournaments, but they continued working on their projects, & ended up receiving HUGE funding!
Finally, keep this picture in mind:
Mtg /
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