With anything we create we take a risk of getting a bad review of comment. Dealing with this is just about facing a simple truth. There's no pleasing everyone.

If you're in the industry of creating content, products or services for people then chances are you've been faced with the dread that is a negative review. As creators we want to our little ideas grow and flourish and eventually make the world a better place for people. It doesn't always happen that way and along the road to success you will encounter bad reviews and negative comments.

If you're under the illusion that there's no way you could have created something that anyone is going to think ill of then you're wrong. With the billions of people on the planet now being more connected than ever before, we've created a soap box where anyone can join in. Unfortunately that means that anyone can share their views and opinions on anything, including your little bud of creation.

I recently had the unfortunate experience of reading about some negative comments about Journalong. I only happened to stumble on them after doing some research for other online markdown journals. The author of the comments was entitled to share his views on Journalong and unfortunately for me, he found Journalong not to his liking.

It was hard to read the comments. My little journaling application has been a side project for two years now, and while it hasn't been a success financially, it has been an experience for me and I'll continue working on it for as long as I keep journaling with it. Journalong hasn't been high on the priority list for the last few months due to freelancing being a priority, but I know that it is far from perfect and there are definitely places where it could be improved. It's a labour of love and it will continue to be.

Comments like this can be a confidence knock and it was for a few hours. That is until I realised that pleasing everyone wasn't the goal of my creation. It was to create something for me to use. It was something that I wanted to use. I don't have paying customers or a market to please and I think that's why I let the comments slide. If Journalong was a product that generated revenue then yes, I would have paid more attention to the comments and perhaps even scheduled in immediate development time to rectify those issues.

With anything that we create, we take a risk of creating something that not everyone is going to find favourable. Even if we have tested the idea with a select group of people, it's still nothing compared to the number of people that will see our idea across the world when it comes to releasing it into the wild. There's definitely no pleasing everyone.