Slow weeks: how can one distinguish between patience and denial?

Month seven. Consistent deliveries, fewer bugs, nice words from users in support tickets. The revenue has shifted somewhere around 4% during the whole time.

Both founder essays say the same thing. You need to persist. You also need to kill it early and move on. Neither will tell you which case you are dealing with.

The only test I have seen that can help with this: What happens if I don’t ship for a month? Currently, I think around forty people will notice, which is not nothing but also not a lot.

Those who got through the tough times and came out alive: What changed? Those who didn’t, what signal should I have paid attention to? I am more interested in the latter, actually.