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HN: "It's okay to make something nobody wants = damn right! Do it for the craft and the process and the learning and the joy." Also HN: "A guy makes 45K/mo by

HN: "It's okay to make something nobody wants = damn right! Do it for the craft and the process and the learning and the joy." Also HN: "A guy makes 45K/mo by building tiny time-saving apps, starting with ones he himself wants = what a sad world of frivolous side-hustles!"

kolbe 3y ago
I see a large diversity of opinion about this guy's business. Who is this "HN" you're talking about?
- pbj1968 3y ago
  And here’s the third bucket - can’t see the forest for the semantic trees.
  - kolbe 3y ago
    Is there a 4th bucket of people who are so eager to pigeonhole ideologies instead of reading that it makes them functionally illiterate? Or are we done at three buckets?
Waterluvian 3y ago
I wish this absolutely ridiculous, unthinking trope of treating communities of thousands of people as one mind that’s only allowed to have one opinion would finally stop.
- fullstackchris 3y ago
  but reading the comments, they mostly fall in to one of these two buckets...
- yieldcrv 3y ago
  in consensus based communities that only show you a reality based on what comments people upvote, it is not ridiculous at all when a different community would have completely different sentiment it is reflective of the audience
  - satvikpendem 3y ago
    Yeah, there is a reason HN has a certain reputation, and Twitter has a different one, and Reddit (or certain subreddits, rather) has an entirely different one. At some point, by comparing the aggregate trends, you definitely can put communities into different camps.