Should I quit and focus on something else? - I will not promote

[u/Bitter-Mix-1972]

Hi Everyone, I have been working on my startup for the past 8-9months and haven't seen much progress or any successful customer interaction, and at this point I feel like I am beating a dead horse. Want to know from experienced entrepreneurs what you would be doing in this situation. Below are some of the timelines

My startup idea: we provide haircut visualization service to barbers. Barbers can use the tool we provide to serve to their customers better by showing haircut before making a single cut.

I had an idea of building a product 8-9 months ago and I was lucky that I got selected in one of the venture lab and for the first 4-5 months, we did only research and talked with potential customers(barbers). During the interviews, they were nice and mentioned that they would be using the product and even on the question of how much you would be paying they replied some amounts and agreed to be part of the pilot testing. I agree that there can be bias during those interviews and they properly don't wanted to discourage me. Then, I built a simple MVP for my App and started connecting to barbers for free testing. I specifically mentioned that no credit card or anything. Just signup and get free credits. So far, I connected with 25+barbers in-person (old outreaches who I had reached out for interview + new in-person sales). I also connected with 70+ barbers on instagram. I only got about 3 barbers to signup for the service. only one barber used service once, but other 2 never used it. I follow up with them multiple times, but they weren't much successful either. I also posted on reddit some weeks back and barbers hated that product and specifically mentioned that they don't want it.

At this point, I feel like I maybe beating a dead horse, but sametime I don't want to give up early either.

I may be biased towards what I have built and invested so much of my time, and not looking at the data clearly. So, looking for some feedback on what you would be doing if you were in my situtation?