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I think this article only makes sense in the context of the bad example given. An actual good idea for a startup wouldn't have such an obvious "hijacker" subset

• convolvatron 10y ago
  here's a few that come to mind o the US govt will have a laundry list of features so specialized that you really end up working just for them o companies that are big enough they want everything running on their internal infrastructure o health care providers with hippa requirements o nation states (including the US) that want to impose monitoring or censorship requirements for you to serve their populations o customers who want their children to use your service or software and have you be responsible for censorship, controlling harassers, etc o any minority community, say classic music lovers want you to accommodate additional metadata that doesn't show up in a service targeting popular music basically any time you have a feature request you need to think about the ongoing cost vs reward. if you let sales drive this process you can easily end up chasing your tail just to land them their commissions. i don't think its that unusual. you have to say no sometimes.