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Thanks a bunch. We had so much positivity on all other platforms but things here did get very toxic and personal - which was a first for me :( We still listen

Thanks a bunch. We had so much positivity on all other platforms but things here did get very toxic and personal - which was a first for me :( We still listen to our users and dropped the extension requirement. Folks assume a lot of bad intent from us even though Chrome clearly states that the extension only has write access to one field and no other permissions. We'll improve and learn from this. We're a super small team and are just launching our v1 beta. Better, better, never done :)

jjulius 5y ago
>Folks assume a lot of bad intent from us even though Chrome clearly states that the extension only has write access to one field and no other permissions. No, it's that we see similarities to that which has burned us before. The insistence on an extension is one example, sure, but there's also the lack of clear answers to questions people have posed about how you intend to handle monetization/selling of user data in the future (and the wording you've used so far regarding it), questions around data currently being sent to third-parties while using You's "private mode", and that you essentially tried gaslighting a community of people that would know better[1]. I'm not saying your intent is bad, I'm saying you came to a community that is inherently less trusting about this kind of tech and while they may have shot from the hip (albeit with valid questions/concerns), you haven't done much to assuage those concerns. [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29169565 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29169565
- 0des 5y ago
  Let's just call it what it is, HN is stocked full of people who are smart enough to know better before being placated by a nobody with 20MM in debt trying to profit off of us ostensibly by using our community as a soap box. Do not forget this is a community built on VC. In my opinion, there is zero tech in Richard, he's all suit. Someone who wanted to be a CEO, and now they're a CEO on full display.
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jjulius 5y ago

>Folks assume a lot of bad intent from us even though Chrome clearly states that the extension only has write access to one field and no other permissions. No, it's that we see similarities to that which has burned us before. The insistence on an extension is one example, sure, but there's also the lack of clear answers to questions people have posed about how you intend to handle monetization/selling of user data in the future (and the wording you've used so far regarding it), questions around data currently being sent to third-parties while using You's "private mode", and that you essentially tried gaslighting a community of people that would know better[1]. I'm not saying your intent is bad, I'm saying you came to a community that is inherently less trusting about this kind of tech and while they may have shot from the hip (albeit with valid questions/concerns), you haven't done much to assuage those concerns. [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29169565 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29169565

0des 5y ago
Let's just call it what it is, HN is stocked full of people who are smart enough to know better before being placated by a nobody with 20MM in debt trying to profit off of us ostensibly by using our community as a soap box. Do not forget this is a community built on VC. In my opinion, there is zero tech in Richard, he's all suit. Someone who wanted to be a CEO, and now they're a CEO on full display.

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