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Er, nice story, really entertaining to read, but I think it would benefit from actually mentioning the "competitor" app that he ended up paying money for. I mea

by rob74 5y ago

Er, nice story, really entertaining to read, but I think it would benefit from actually mentioning the "competitor" app that he ended up paying money for. I mean, he won't ship his own app anymore, so no harm done in mentioning it, right?

Reason077 5y ago
I’m curious too!
SamBam 5y ago
I could see that distracting from the main point. Then it becomes "Why were you solving that problem?" "Why did you insult their app, it's really great!" "The author's right, no one should use app X." It's not the point of the story.
- c03 5y ago
  It's not really a story as it is now though. Someone did something better than this guy. It's just a stream slightly coherent gonzo ranting.
  - samhw 5y ago
    In other words, a story? An account of something that happened to that person? Does he have to state the names of every road he was on and every cafe he went to? I like this site, but the one thing I'll never understand is the outrageously entitled attitudes of so many people when it comes to free content, like fat and delirious blog-reading Ubus.
- dqpb 5y ago
  Until he adds some actual facts, I’m going to assume the story is not true.
- cercatrova 5y ago
  Agreed, you see it all the time on HN, commentors bikeshedding insignificant parts of an article. I'm glad the author didn't put in the competitor in the article.
caymanjim 5y ago
Yeah, it's hard to know how to feel about this without that detail. Would the author's app have beaten it to market? Was the competing app actually there all along, and the author hadn't done market research? Are they really even solving the same problem? I've had plenty of instances of "I thought of that 10 years ago!" or even "I solved that 10 years ago!" but it's not that simple. My solutions wouldn't have succeeded because they weren't usable enough and I wasn't motivated enough.
archon810 5y ago
I was also dying to know so I went digging. It's Google Tasks. https://twitter.com/thekitze/status/1524809601538990083 https://twitter.com/thekitze/status/1524809601538990083
- morsch 5y ago
  I'm not sure if that's a joke?

by rob74 5y ago

Reason077 5y ago

I’m curious too!

SamBam 5y ago

I could see that distracting from the main point. Then it becomes "Why were you solving that problem?" "Why did you insult their app, it's really great!" "The author's right, no one should use app X." It's not the point of the story.

c03 5y ago
It's not really a story as it is now though. Someone did something better than this guy. It's just a stream slightly coherent gonzo ranting.
- samhw 5y ago
  In other words, a story? An account of something that happened to that person? Does he have to state the names of every road he was on and every cafe he went to? I like this site, but the one thing I'll never understand is the outrageously entitled attitudes of so many people when it comes to free content, like fat and delirious blog-reading Ubus.
dqpb 5y ago
Until he adds some actual facts, I’m going to assume the story is not true.
cercatrova 5y ago
Agreed, you see it all the time on HN, commentors bikeshedding insignificant parts of an article. I'm glad the author didn't put in the competitor in the article.

caymanjim 5y ago

Yeah, it's hard to know how to feel about this without that detail. Would the author's app have beaten it to market? Was the competing app actually there all along, and the author hadn't done market research? Are they really even solving the same problem? I've had plenty of instances of "I thought of that 10 years ago!" or even "I solved that 10 years ago!" but it's not that simple. My solutions wouldn't have succeeded because they weren't usable enough and I wasn't motivated enough.

archon810 5y ago

I was also dying to know so I went digging. It's Google Tasks. https://twitter.com/thekitze/status/1524809601538990083 https://twitter.com/thekitze/status/1524809601538990083

morsch 5y ago
I'm not sure if that's a joke?