"A large, loud portion of the public will openly hate you regardless of what you do. Learn to live with it. No-one will ever take your project as seriously as you, or fully realise what you’re going through. Everyone will think they know better than you about your own project. Getting noticed at all is incredibly difficult . The odds of you making money out of it are slim. If you want to succeed, you’ll likely have to sell out. Just how MUCH you sell out is up to you. You have to develop a VERY thick skin. Being open with the public isn’t neccesarily smiled upon 100% of the time. You will meet many “game developers” but very few people who are actually developing games. You need to have the ability to listen to all advice given to you. Remember that listening to advice doesn’t mean you have to take it. But listening can’t hurt and you never know what you might learn."

Lots of this is applicable to founding a startup too. Good advice tbh.