We live-demoed Squeakly on the ClownCon Demo Day stage to 600 clowns. The conference wifi went down two seconds in. Contextual honking requires the cloud. Our horn produced nothing for eleven seconds. I squeezed it harder. It produced nothing, harder.
Then Mimi Marceau, front row, mimed a honk. The room lost it. Biggest laugh of the day. I've watched the recording 40 times and I believe it's the strongest product-market-fit signal we've ever had, though my co-founder disagrees about which product.
Grateful for every lesson. Rebuilding the demo with an offline mode.