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MightyBrand's design sucks, agreed. I'm not a designer, nor is my cofounder, and we haven't finished our redesign. Doing a startup is hard work, as I'm sure you

MightyBrand's design sucks, agreed. I'm not a designer, nor is my cofounder, and we haven't finished our redesign. Doing a startup is hard work, as I'm sure you know. We're just taking it one day at a time and doing the best we can with what we have. Obviously some people will find that as contemptible as you obviously do, but that's ok. Enough people love us to keep the lights on, and most days that's enough :) Since you've seen fit to make this personal, care to drop the shroud of anonymity and tell us about all the deep, intensely meaningful things you've created or given the world? Otherwise, it would seem that you're just another cowardly troll who creates a throwaway account to sling shit. And how meaningful is that?

ruabin 17y ago
It's nothing personal. Or nothing offensively personal, anyway. I don't think you're a bad or evil or stupid person. I just disagree with your outlook on this, which happens to factor in with how you work right now. I mean, I'm in the minority here. I don't get along with the startup culture at all; I don't even feel comfortable with the concept of making a living offering a service per se to somebody. I think that my opinions have a certain merit, but they're opinions based on a shitload of varying philosophies and ideas and talents which don't translate well for everybody. But I like to offer them because I know there're certain people here who might benefit either from the ideas or from the resulting debate. As for the anonymity: I don't feel comfortable being a known contributor to this place, for a variety of reasons. I read the stories here and I join in the discussions where I think my words might mean something, but I'm critical of the community and I don't want to be the person who spends his time fighting to change it. So, if it's all the same to you, I'll keep my name unspoken, and hope that I'm contributing enough that my writing here is seen as a valuable offering and not, as you'd claim, a cowardly troll. (When things by me are posted here, plenty of anonymous users see fit to address me by name. So if that's what you're worried about, I'm sure you'll get your chance.)

ruabin 17y ago

It's nothing personal. Or nothing offensively personal, anyway. I don't think you're a bad or evil or stupid person. I just disagree with your outlook on this, which happens to factor in with how you work right now. I mean, I'm in the minority here. I don't get along with the startup culture at all; I don't even feel comfortable with the concept of making a living offering a service per se to somebody. I think that my opinions have a certain merit, but they're opinions based on a shitload of varying philosophies and ideas and talents which don't translate well for everybody. But I like to offer them because I know there're certain people here who might benefit either from the ideas or from the resulting debate. As for the anonymity: I don't feel comfortable being a known contributor to this place, for a variety of reasons. I read the stories here and I join in the discussions where I think my words might mean something, but I'm critical of the community and I don't want to be the person who spends his time fighting to change it. So, if it's all the same to you, I'll keep my name unspoken, and hope that I'm contributing enough that my writing here is seen as a valuable offering and not, as you'd claim, a cowardly troll. (When things by me are posted here, plenty of anonymous users see fit to address me by name. So if that's what you're worried about, I'm sure you'll get your chance.)