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If it's any consolation to you, I have a very oddly specific memory about this. I didn't follow any drama or didn't know that there was drama. But I do remember
by laborcontract 3y ago
If it's any consolation to you, I have a very oddly specific memory about this. I didn't follow any drama or didn't know that there was drama. But I do remember your original post and then seeing the second post a few days later thinking, “wait, why is this being so highly upvoted when we all front-paged this a few days ago?”
- rKarpinski 3y agohaha thanks. And I documented it all in the blog post I wrote way back when [1] there really isn't any question about timeline or if it was inspired. At the end of the day, it was a silly project I built and I got 20k users! It didn't feel great to be copied and have them get 15x more traction. Whatever the thoughts are around that... the reason I posted today was the relevancy to the parent extension because within weeks they tried to (or did) sell the extension's user base (presumably to bad actors). I had no idea how shady the extension world was before this, and I'm much more conservative about which ones I'll install now. [1] https://github.com/rkk3/ad-accelerator/blob/main/lessons_post.md#what-is-property--pierre-joseph-proudhon https://github.com/rkk3/ad-accelerator/blob/main/lessons_pos...
- laborcontract 3y agoI also think the right conclusion to take from this is that the validation you've seen in just this one side project of yours should encourage you to be more open and sharing of those ideas. Now you at least know what the next steps are from there, and how aggressively you should pursue those steps. Ive been ripped off in the past. While it doesn't feel great, it should fuel the irrational confidence part of you.