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Probably for the same reason that 1000 people + Zuckerberg tried to develop a MySpace killer. Some people think its fun, some people think its a good way to le

Probably for the same reason that 1000 people + Zuckerberg tried to develop a MySpace killer. Some people think its fun, some people think its a good way to learn, some people are aiming for the fame and glory. Almost all of them will gain something out of trying, the only people who dont gain anything are the ones sneering from the sidelines.

mindcrime 15y ago
Sounds similar to the sentiment of this quote, of which I am always reminded, by posts like this. It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. -- Theodore Roosevelt
recoiledsnake 15y ago
> the only people who dont gain anything are the ones sneering from the sidelines. That's not necessarily true. There are people who are concentrating on other ideas instead of doing the same thing and there are people who are investing all their life's savings and borrowing to launch the same kind of idea as Facebook.
- daleharvey 15y ago
  at least in my experience, the intersection of people who scoff at those building new things, and those actually building new things for themselves isnt that large.
jdietrich 15y ago
Zuckerberg didn't try to develop a MySpace killer. He tried to develop a facebook[1] killer. thefacebook.com v0.1 wasn't built as a "social network", it was built as an online version of the college directory. That's why Zuckerberg won and the other thousand guys lost. His MVP was useful with only a few hundred users and a killer app with a few thousand. Everyone who tried to kill MySpace needed zillions of users and had no real way of getting them. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_(directory) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_(directory)

mindcrime 15y ago

Sounds similar to the sentiment of this quote, of which I am always reminded, by posts like this. It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. -- Theodore Roosevelt

recoiledsnake 15y ago

> the only people who dont gain anything are the ones sneering from the sidelines. That's not necessarily true. There are people who are concentrating on other ideas instead of doing the same thing and there are people who are investing all their life's savings and borrowing to launch the same kind of idea as Facebook.

daleharvey 15y ago
at least in my experience, the intersection of people who scoff at those building new things, and those actually building new things for themselves isnt that large.

jdietrich 15y ago

Zuckerberg didn't try to develop a MySpace killer. He tried to develop a facebook[1] killer. thefacebook.com v0.1 wasn't built as a "social network", it was built as an online version of the college directory. That's why Zuckerberg won and the other thousand guys lost. His MVP was useful with only a few hundred users and a killer app with a few thousand. Everyone who tried to kill MySpace needed zillions of users and had no real way of getting them. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_(directory) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_(directory)