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But who are you targeting as your audience? Just HN? Really?? The comments clearly show that even a portion of HN is offended. And doesn't every single startup

• mtogo 15y ago
  But who are you targeting as your audience? Just HN? Really?? This isn't my project, i hadn't even heard of it until it was posted today. The comments clearly show that even a portion of HN is offended. And doesn't every single startup want the largest audience possible? A portion of people are going to be offended at everything. Frankly, if i was starting a company it'd be nice to get rid of the easily offended people right off the bat, as they're the biggest complainers. And no, you don't want the largest audience. A smaller but loyal audience is going to do a company more good in the long run, and the word 'fuck' helps weed out the non-loyal, easily offended people that aren't going to do a startup any good. Finally, i used HN as an example. You can use all the people in the first world if you'd like, and i'd still make an educated guess that a tiny portion of them have so thin a skin as to be offended by a word in a domain name.
• mattdeboard 15y ago
  This isn't a startup, it's a website.