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The original HN post only has 23 votes and 11 comments! Good reminder that HN doesn't have to be crazy about your project for it to become successful. https://
by azhenley 8y ago
The original HN post only has 23 votes and 11 comments! Good reminder that HN doesn't have to be crazy about your project for it to become successful.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=494649 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=494649
- misiti3780 8y agoTrue, but there were a lot less people on hacker news 10 years ago (presumably)
- gus_massa 8y agoI agree. It's difficult to compare, but for comparison: 2009> https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-02-25 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-02-25 One with 381 points, a few with 100 points, and it descends quite fast and the last few posts in the page have about 20 points. 2019> https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2019-02-25 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2019-02-25 Three with more than 400 points, many with 300/200/100 points, and only the last has less than 50 points.
- bilifuduo 8y agoReminds me of the time when Bitcoin was first posted to Hacker News and only got 5 upvotes and 3 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599852 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599852
- kortilla 8y agoCool, but I think the first time it received a whopping nothing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=463793 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=463793
- agumonkey 8y agoSays something about society's myopia. I need to research and synthetize history of projects like these. Invisible at first, diagonal .. and then booming. Mostly about people's inspiration and thinking process prior said project.
- exolymph 8y agoBooming and busting, don't forget. (My job is advocating a cryptocurrency that enables privacy through technology, but I think that cryptocurrencies should be a quite small percentage — if any — of most people's investment portfolios.)
- JrProgrammer 8y agoIt's amazing how those three comments still reflect the main opinions about crypto
- DSingularity 8y agoLol good point
- anoncake 8y ago"This is an absurd waste of energy" is missing.
- exolymph 8y agoIt's not a waste of energy according to the miners who shell out for that energy.
- jraph 8y ago"there is absolutely no way that anyone is going to have any faith in this currency"
- craz8 8y agoAnd Ezra jumps right in and writes the Ruby driver just from that post with almost no traction Ezra was one of the good guys
- antirez 8y agoRIP Ezra, he was very talented and loved to code and do computer stuff. You could read his excitement in his eyes and words.
- lemoncucumber 8y agoNo wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
- fyfy18 8y agoPretty much the same with Dropbox. Quite a few of the top voted comments were rather dismissive. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
- simonh 8y agoThe top comment on Dropbox is classic. "I can simply replicate this with some sticky tape, bailing twine, wood off-cuts and parts salvaged from a few motorcycles, cars, traction engines and that old WW II bomber turret I have in my back yard. Why would anyone ever use their pre-packaged product instead?"
- lapnitnelav 8y agoIndeed, a good reminder for the tech crowd that there's value in usability / accessibility for the general public.
- pavelrub 8y agoThere is value in that for everybody, including the "tech crowd".
- jessaustin 8y agoSome may have misread that comment.
- megous 8y agoThe top comment is still true, though. If you have technical knowledge, you can get something better much cheaper.