Just completed building a tool which will solve a billion dollar issue with literally zero competitors, but I feel afraid to show it to the world.<p>I afraid how people will react and this makes anxious. What to do?
There's an idiom that states: <i>put up, or shut up</i> (<a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/put-up-or-shut-up" rel="nofollow">https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/put-u...</a>).<p>I don't mean to be rude, but either 1) share this tool with the world, regardless of the reception, or 2) don't release it and stop wringing your hands in public.
You're probably more afraid of being wrong about your assessment of the situation. What's worse: people criticize your work, or nobody cares?<p>Show off your work. Advocate for yourself. If you worked hard on something, you damn well should be proud of it.
If it's a real advance expect manure and misunderstanding for a while - we have the record of what bystanders said as they watched Fulton's steamship being built and it wasn't pretty. Everyone knew it couldn't work, was madness, etc. Twas a good day in my life, long ago, when I realized that anxiety couldn't actually kill me. Bite the bullet. But steel man your product as best you can and anticipate whatever technical difficulties might arise first, of course.<p>Ordinary advice, but it's an ever-recurring, ordinary-enough situation historically.
Everyone likes to think that their project or solution meets a humongous need that everyone should be clamoring for; but it is far harder than you think. People become entrenched in the status-quo and will often resist change, even in the tech field where innovation is the watchword.<p>I have been working for years on a new kind of data management system. I was convinced that once I proved that it could organize files better than file systems and find things based off tags thousands of times faster; that people would adopt it. I was also convinced that if I could make it do relational table queries twice as fast as the competition, that it would likewise spur mass adoption.<p>In spite of making it do those things, it remains an uphill battle to get people to try it out.
You can't control how people are going to react. Will they like it? Will they hate it? You never know until you show your work to them. No use stressing out about what you can't control.<p>So, let's say this tool that you created tanks? If that happens, I'm sure there's more than one lesson to learn from that. And if it catches on but doesn't take the world by storm (maybe it only solves a million dollar issue), then you can take consolation in the fact that what you created helps some people.<p>The decision to show it to the world is yours. Make a choice, then don't agonize over whether that choice was the right one.
Most people will hate it. People generally fear originality. Creativity is often a curse.<p>Success is the result of powering through this early hate and reaching the necessary point of critical adoption rate.
Without any more context, I'm not sure how you expect to get serious answers to your question. "Billion dollar issue" is hopelessly vague.