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The good news is that I care enough to say what I really think despite the definite collateral damage to my reputation by saying something negative and going ag
by zackattack 15y ago
The good news is that I care enough to say what I really think despite the definite collateral damage to my reputation by saying something negative and going against the grain of what everyone here is saying?
The social consequences to my statement make me think of pandas and lobsters -
http://ifindkarma.posterous.com/pandas-and-lobsters-why-google-cannot-build-s http://ifindkarma.posterous.com/pandas-and-lobsters-why-goog...
and I was eager to hear responses to my comment - perhaps related:
http://cognitivesocialweb.com/home/2010/12/19/on-facebook-and-the-identity-reinforcement-theory.html http://cognitivesocialweb.com/home/2010/12/19/on-facebook-an...
btw I've been rejected by YCombinator multiple times
- jazzychad 15y agoI certainly do not begrudge you your opinion. I completely respect it. Thank you for being honest and not worried about what other people might think.
- MicahWedemeyer 15y agoI was eager to hear responses to my comment I thought it was overly harsh and missed the entire point of the post. The article was titled "Startups are Hard" not "Ask HN: Please review my app" I greatly appreciated the honest reflection on how hard it is to start something. It mirrored many of my own experiences and provided a valuable counter example to the standard "Oooh, I fell out of bed into a pile of money" startup story that's usually tossed around. Regardless of the value of Notifo or any particular case, startups (hell, all businesses) are hard and having people tell you your idea sucks doesn't really help all that much. Sucky ideas sometimes do extremely well (ie. Facebook, Twitter, and many more), and great ideas sometimes do terribly (ie. tons of shit we've never heard of because they're all dead).
- zackattack 15y agoYou're right.