I’ve done this. Before I “discovered” Bitcoin I spent $30k and a years worth of work trying to patent something that was rejected by the patent office then the product itself didn’t take off.
Fuck, it hurt. And if I had been stacking Bitcoin during that whole time (2018) I would have a billion Sats by now. But it didn’t go like that. I found Bitcoin a year later and it’s changed my life dramatically in just 5 years. Onward.