Hi, I am Joe and have been successfully running my own company for 16 years.
I don't use social media, and I usually pay developers to build my tech. Once I spent $25K on software, and another time I spent ~$1M. In both cases, the initial "we can help!" yielded 1/5th of what I expected. It took 5 times the cost to finish because devs fear if you know the true price upfront, you ll punt. Suffice to say, I didn't feel great about building software.
I'm just another engineering graduate who faced hundreds of rejections and spent countless hours building projects, only to run into the same problems every time.