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>I built it with the intention to help people with disabilities and finger/wrist pain (people like my dad) I certainly didn't get that impression from the land
by Fade_Dance 2y ago
>I built it with the intention to help people with disabilities and finger/wrist pain (people like my dad)
I certainly didn't get that impression from the landing page. It looks like a nice general purpose tool, and as you said, NSFW content is one of the major content areas on the internet.
Why not just keep it general purpose and let users do with it what they will?
if you did feel the need to lean into it, maybe you could split off another version specifically for that NSFW use case. I'm sure there are certain niche features that could be useful for... 1 handed use. Alternatively, you could repackage the extension and make it clear that it is for helping those with disabilities. That's sort of the mirror of the first idea I had. Have a general purpose extension and then have one that is specifically for disabilities. I don't know, just brainstorming.
Something like this was always a likely outcome for the case in which your release actually gets picked up by the public. In other timelines it could have been used by groups of young kids for some obscure online video game or social media trend, some sort of click farming operation in a country that you know very little about, etc. Welcome to the internet.
I think you probably do have a good name and a nice little site there (as your extension got discovered in the first place), so if I were you I would probably just continue making it the best extension that I could. If you don't care about the current use case, then don't specifically consider their needs in future releases, but I wouldn't block sites or do anything like that. What I would do is spend at least a tiny bit of time considering why those users are choosing your extension, in order to see if there's more juice in possibly pushing in those directions. Then I would move on.
- KouroshGhaffari 2y agoSo I exclusively marketed it on accessibility forums etc. and to be fair, a good chunk of users have come through there. But I got a wave of NSFW users out of nowhere and I can't find the source however hard I try. But I think you're right. I should just be happy that it's helping some people, regardless of the use-case. Thanks for taking the time to write such a thoughtful response!!
- theGeatZhopa 2y ago+1 I think its not your business, as long your product is used. Be happy with that.. I'll give it a try. I writing with just one hand and one finger right now. No, not because of porn hahahaha because og hackernews and i'm a hacker and the always type very fast hahaha I would sell it to the very porn-imperium. Its a hard usecase they can offer to their users :)
- KouroshGhaffari 2y agoHey man I don't judge! Write with 1 hand for whatever reason ;)