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Well I suck if my goal is anything other trying to make the world a better place. I've been working on Polar for free for the last six months ten hours a day 6

Well I suck if my goal is anything other trying to make the world a better place. I've been working on Polar for free for the last six months ten hours a day 6-7 days a week because I want the world to be a better place. But hey.. I guess I should be doing this for free because I'm grandiose and trying to make the world a better place.

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tempguy9999 8y ago
> Well I suck if my goal is anything other trying to make the world a better place. Yeah, you do, and so do I if I try to do anything. While people here have a valid question ('wat is this thing?') which you need to address, and perhaps you oversold your case, I feel for you. Stick your neck out for other people and a common breed of web-dog will stick its teeth in, howling "it'll never work so there's no point trying!". And thereby will ensure it won't. Disheartening isn't it, but there are plenty of good people though. I can't help you at the moment (tough times here I'm afraid) but I wish you luck!
- burtonator 8y ago
  Respect :).. thanks.. No good deed goes unpunished :)
Taylor_OD 8y ago
I don't think that tone will help you.
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lostgame 8y ago
You have to put the effort in to something that you expect people to actually pay for. I’m not gonna lie, I’m sure I’m not the only one who gave a giggle at $27. I would use this if it were free and so would many others. Tons of people dedicate months or years to FOSS projects and tons of people dedicate months or years to achieve something great, and, as you say, helpful, without ever getting so much as a thank you. It doesn’t stop them. That’s what makes them truly great people. I don’t see that you’re looking at your customer or purpose with this statement. It seems you’re far more concerned with your bottom line at the moment...a clickbaity headline like you chose kinda puffs your ego regarding the project out of proportion, and the fact that the follow up video to that link contains such little actual information about the product is strange at best. We developers are not usually ourselves the best designers or marketers - getting on HN can be a really big deal for your success - but I see a lot of confused people here. Perhaps look at someone involved in marketing. Just saying. Mad respect for all you’ve contributed to the technology sphere.
- JohnFen 8y ago
  > I’m sure I’m not the only one who gave a giggle at $27 To be fair, it's not hard to imagine software that allows the easy sharing of content that would be worth $27. It all depends on what, exactly, it really does and how much benefit I'd get from using it.
gjm11 8y ago
No one's saying you suck. Only that "reboot the internet" doesn't seem like a very good description of what you're actually doing or trying to do.
dingaling 8y ago
Opera Unite had the potential to reboot the Internet by including a simple-to-use web server and content manager alongside the browser. It had basic blogging, streaming and even a chat server. It could be used by 'normal' users to self-host their own content and to share files without them having to download an app or sign up to a subscription. Whereas Polar seems to be aiming for a stratum above those end-users. But such techy people can already self-host if they want to. Most just don't want to. It's not a technology problem so much as a time-opportunity issue.

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tempguy9999 8y ago

> Well I suck if my goal is anything other trying to make the world a better place. Yeah, you do, and so do I if I try to do anything. While people here have a valid question ('wat is this thing?') which you need to address, and perhaps you oversold your case, I feel for you. Stick your neck out for other people and a common breed of web-dog will stick its teeth in, howling "it'll never work so there's no point trying!". And thereby will ensure it won't. Disheartening isn't it, but there are plenty of good people though. I can't help you at the moment (tough times here I'm afraid) but I wish you luck!

burtonator 8y ago
Respect :).. thanks.. No good deed goes unpunished :)

Taylor_OD 8y ago

I don't think that tone will help you.

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lostgame 8y ago

You have to put the effort in to something that you expect people to actually pay for. I’m not gonna lie, I’m sure I’m not the only one who gave a giggle at $27. I would use this if it were free and so would many others. Tons of people dedicate months or years to FOSS projects and tons of people dedicate months or years to achieve something great, and, as you say, helpful, without ever getting so much as a thank you. It doesn’t stop them. That’s what makes them truly great people. I don’t see that you’re looking at your customer or purpose with this statement. It seems you’re far more concerned with your bottom line at the moment...a clickbaity headline like you chose kinda puffs your ego regarding the project out of proportion, and the fact that the follow up video to that link contains such little actual information about the product is strange at best. We developers are not usually ourselves the best designers or marketers - getting on HN can be a really big deal for your success - but I see a lot of confused people here. Perhaps look at someone involved in marketing. Just saying. Mad respect for all you’ve contributed to the technology sphere.

JohnFen 8y ago
> I’m sure I’m not the only one who gave a giggle at $27 To be fair, it's not hard to imagine software that allows the easy sharing of content that would be worth $27. It all depends on what, exactly, it really does and how much benefit I'd get from using it.

gjm11 8y ago

No one's saying you suck. Only that "reboot the internet" doesn't seem like a very good description of what you're actually doing or trying to do.

dingaling 8y ago

Opera Unite had the potential to reboot the Internet by including a simple-to-use web server and content manager alongside the browser. It had basic blogging, streaming and even a chat server. It could be used by 'normal' users to self-host their own content and to share files without them having to download an app or sign up to a subscription. Whereas Polar seems to be aiming for a stratum above those end-users. But such techy people can already self-host if they want to. Most just don't want to. It's not a technology problem so much as a time-opportunity issue.