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Accountability to well-informed people who understand the tradeoffs involved in building sustainable real-world infrastructure is great. HN is not an audience
by ubernostrum 10y ago
Accountability to well-informed people who understand the tradeoffs involved in building sustainable real-world infrastructure is great.
HN is not an audience of that kind of people.
- anigbrowl 10y agoIt is when people want to launch things and get lots of buzz, then HN is great. But when people express criticism suddenly the user community is a bunch of angry peasants to be kept at arm's length. I've gotta say I'm getting real tired of entrepreneurs that want to be everybody's friend when they're getting their exciting new venture off the ground but are too cool to discuss the nuances of business with anyone outside the VC bubble whenever they run into a PR problem. That's a general statement, not directed at the academia.edu team. It's a sad reality that a lot of what passes for entrepreneurship today involves telling users, employees, and investors that they're each the most important group so as to make as many people as possible happy, right up to the point where a conflict of interest emerges and then trying to obscure the fact of its existence with platitudes.
- ubernostrum 10y agoI'm not an entrepreneur and don't necessarily want to be HN's friend.
- rhizome 10y agoAre you saying that HN commenter response is a good barometer for business ideas? A free and well-diversified focus group?