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Ask HN: Which hype you bought which backfired?
Many times we buy into something because of hype, it could be a flavor of the month programming language or javascript framework. Any professional would probably have made many of such mistakes, in hindsight we deem stupid. Please tell us about your hype-driven blunders which backfired.
- smt88 9y ago- Frameworks. Not any particular framework, just Rails-style, monolithic frameworks with lots of magic. Every language got a Rails-like framework at one point, and many were/are popular. - Native mobile apps. They're not a good replacement for the vast majority of circumstances, and users are extremely reluctant to use (and keep using) them. - MySQL. I still have no idea why anyone would choose it over Postgres, and no one has been able to give me an answer. I chose it because it was the database of LAMP stacks, and then I got locked in because I knew it already.