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The title is clearly a bit of marketing, but this is really a great piece nonetheless. It's not actually about building a browser. What it is about is building

by ftio 7y ago

The title is clearly a bit of marketing, but this is really a great piece nonetheless. It's not actually about building a browser. What it is about is building an MVP (perhaps unwittingly), scratching your own itch, iterating based on feedback from early adopters, and discovering a niche where there's a lot of value waiting to be unlocked. If only everyone approached building products this way.

use-net 7y ago
it is a horrific rip-off! nobody should spend a penny on this! 20 years ago I put a browser together with 5 clicks using Delphi and gave it away for free, dude.
- snazz 7y ago
  Please express your opinions more nicely. These comments don’t add to the discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
SirSavary 7y ago
Your comment is too true, especially about scratching the itch. Looking at the comments on HN first, I expected this to be a tutorial of sorts; I was totally surprised by the content within the post. Reading the article invoked the sense of wonderment and fun that originally drew me to programming/software development. Reading the comments on here did nothing but trigger my PTSD and flare up my anxiety. How is it people can be so pedantic and... mean? I don't know what else to call it when someone finds the the time to sit down and write comments that are hundreds of words long that do nothing but tear apart the creations of another person. Would these commenters also take joy in attending children's science fairs, pointing out that none of them truly discovered anything because they gleaned it all off of books and the internet? It's such a toxic, unproductive attitude. If even a fraction of the energy that went into writing vile comments on HN was spent writing code, maybe we would have one of these fancy new rendering engines half the people in here are raising hell about.

by ftio 7y ago

use-net 7y ago

it is a horrific rip-off! nobody should spend a penny on this! 20 years ago I put a browser together with 5 clicks using Delphi and gave it away for free, dude.

snazz 7y ago
Please express your opinions more nicely. These comments don’t add to the discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

SirSavary 7y ago

Your comment is too true, especially about scratching the itch. Looking at the comments on HN first, I expected this to be a tutorial of sorts; I was totally surprised by the content within the post. Reading the article invoked the sense of wonderment and fun that originally drew me to programming/software development. Reading the comments on here did nothing but trigger my PTSD and flare up my anxiety. How is it people can be so pedantic and... mean? I don't know what else to call it when someone finds the the time to sit down and write comments that are hundreds of words long that do nothing but tear apart the creations of another person. Would these commenters also take joy in attending children's science fairs, pointing out that none of them truly discovered anything because they gleaned it all off of books and the internet? It's such a toxic, unproductive attitude. If even a fraction of the energy that went into writing vile comments on HN was spent writing code, maybe we would have one of these fancy new rendering engines half the people in here are raising hell about.