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It's very frustrating to me when people here take the time to build something and then solicit feedback from HN, only to have someone immediately post "That alr
by colinbartlett 10y ago
It's very frustrating to me when people here take the time to build something and then solicit feedback from HN, only to have someone immediately post "That already exists".
Sure, it can be nice to solicit explanations of differentiation from the OP to help understand the use cases, but these kind of sweeping comments aren't helpful to anyone.
- fredrivett 10y agoI think there's some value to see other options solving a similar problem, but I agree the "that already exists" mantra is pretty limited. For a long time we never shipped anything due to the need to try and make the next Facebook in one go. It crippled our creativity. These days we've learnt that it's ok to build and launch something that's been done before, the most important thing is learning to launch. For us we launched this to get back into the swing of launching stuff after a few months since our last launch. This is entirely an MVP, built and launched in under 15 hours total design/dev time. Thanks for taking the time to comment Colin.
- Gys 10y agoThe OP explicitly says nobody could find a service like this. I was very surprised, did some research and responded to that. I think its always good to do some fact checking...
- oneeyedpigeon 10y agoThe trouble is, you didn't say any of that in your original comment, so it was easier to misunderstand your intentions than not. OP is probably aware of the alternatives, but somewhere along the line, none of them fulfil all their requirements.