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But you've just had the exact opposite knee-jerk reaction to the one you were commenting on -- by assuming that we're all "sour grapes". Instead, you could cons
by pork 15y ago
But you've just had the exact opposite knee-jerk reaction to the one you were commenting on -- by assuming that we're all "sour grapes". Instead, you could consider that our criticism of Color is legitimate. I think a reason a lot of us are skeptical is that if you took Color's business plan and general idea and applied to YC/TechStars/any VC, you would probably get polite looks of boredom and stifled yawns. We've also been hearing of a somewhat cynical underlying purpose to an otherwise fluffy mobile app, i.e., that it was meant to be a "data mining platform", which doesn't exactly breed goodwill from people who are trying to create consumer-centered products.
So why again does Color deserve any slack from (what I feel is rightly deserved) criticism?
- marknutter 15y agoI should have clarified that I meant a lot of the criticism sounds like sour grapes, not all. The point I want to make is that if it wasn't public knowledge how much money these guys took, I think the reaction on HN to these ideas would be very different. My guess is that the 40M scandal makes it pretty much impossible for these guys to get a fair shake in the developer community.
- teaspoon 15y agoNitpick: you might call that envy or schadenfreude, but it's not sour grapes. Sour grapes would be if someone were talking down the desirability of $40 million itself. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_Grapes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_Grapes