I live in India, and I face the same situation time and again, which you are facing now.
I've come to a conclusion that it's because of Hacker News, the more you see HN, the more you get worried by watching a lot of start-ups growing in front of you, and you can't do nothing but press an upvote button, applauding their success.
What you need to do is close HN and minimize the time you spend on it, instead work on something, start small and don't get depressed easily.
The stories you see on HN are months hard work, they also feel same time and again, but they don't lose hope.
I know my comment is bit harsh and not sympathetic, but IMHO right now you don't need sympathy instead you need motivation.
I sometimes wonder, can cloud IDE's will really be able to replace traditional code editors like Sublime Text, Vim, Emacs.
I really like the idea of cloud IDE's, but practically it's difficult to bring the entire development environment on cloud/browser, and even more difficult when switching from Vim.
Anyways, I really appreciate the efforts you are putting in this project. Congrats guys/gals, job well done.
You haven't mentioned the complete sentence => "98% of Indian Population have not even heard the word "Github" in their entire life, yet everyone acts like they know this stuff".
The problem is "They try to act" like they know about software industry, meanwhile when you try to explain them that you are working on some open source project, they refuse to respect your opinion.