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Gee, today is my birthday (36). I've never managed to get anything I've built to the HN front page. Always wondered if that means my ideas just weren’t that int

by guzik 1y ago

Gee, today is my birthday (36). I've never managed to get anything I've built to the HN front page. Always wondered if that means my ideas just weren’t that interesting, or if it's just the luck of the draw. *edited my original comment without mentioning my project*

Pooge 1y ago
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ljf 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44961660 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44961660 - Interesting project - how did you get into the wearables field? What was your background before setting up this start-up?
- guzik 1y ago
  Ha, thank you for that! I actually didn't have prior experience in wearables. My background was in mobile app development. I co-founded a company during the app boom, and we built a lot of iOS and Android apps. The transition into health sensors happened pretty organically and I also felt there was nothing that let me measure my own data and make use of it, so I decided to create a wearabke + free SDK for that. There is a quite nice article of how it all started here: https://howtoware.com/aidlab https://howtoware.com/aidlab (good reading for anyone wondering what the struggles are when running a wearable startup).
IAmBroom 1y ago
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- seanhunter 1y ago
  They weren’t trying to get on the front page of hn age 1 so it’s not 36 years in a row. Why do you need to be unpleasant to someone you don’t even know?
F0UKYOU-HN 1y ago
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- guzik 1y ago
  glad there are a few supporting comments including yours (I thought I was the only one who felt the criticism was excessive)
  - F0UKYOU-HN 1y ago
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- QuantumGood 1y ago
  In recent years it seems we're getting more people who have been banned elsewhere looking for more outlets for their rage.
- tomhow 1y ago
  We (and you) can never be sure why people downvote things, and whilst I think the parent commenter was well-intentioned, I think perhaps the downvotes were due to the perception of intruding on someone else's comment/subthread with promotion of one's own project. As for your own comments, you seem to have a campaign against HN going on. Yes the HN audience can be hard to understand sometimes, but on the whole it seems easy enough to do well here if you bring a generosity of spirit, and not so well if you bring combativeness and hostility. The guidelines [1] make it clear what we're expecting, and the first two words of the "In Comments" section are "Be kind". If you start with that then you'll be on solid ground. Regarding your username, we can't have usernames like this, because it effectively trolls the community every time you comment. So I've banned the account for now. You're welcome to register a new account with a normal username, or email us (hn@ycombinator.com ) asking us to change the username. We'd certainly be very happy to have you post interesting comments from your experience as a retired aerospace engineer or any other life experience you no doubt have. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

by guzik 1y ago

Pooge 1y ago

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ljf 1y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44961660 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44961660 - Interesting project - how did you get into the wearables field? What was your background before setting up this start-up?

guzik 1y ago
Ha, thank you for that! I actually didn't have prior experience in wearables. My background was in mobile app development. I co-founded a company during the app boom, and we built a lot of iOS and Android apps. The transition into health sensors happened pretty organically and I also felt there was nothing that let me measure my own data and make use of it, so I decided to create a wearabke + free SDK for that. There is a quite nice article of how it all started here: https://howtoware.com/aidlab https://howtoware.com/aidlab (good reading for anyone wondering what the struggles are when running a wearable startup).

IAmBroom 1y ago

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seanhunter 1y ago
They weren’t trying to get on the front page of hn age 1 so it’s not 36 years in a row. Why do you need to be unpleasant to someone you don’t even know?

F0UKYOU-HN 1y ago

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guzik 1y ago
glad there are a few supporting comments including yours (I thought I was the only one who felt the criticism was excessive)
- F0UKYOU-HN 1y ago
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QuantumGood 1y ago
In recent years it seems we're getting more people who have been banned elsewhere looking for more outlets for their rage.
tomhow 1y ago
We (and you) can never be sure why people downvote things, and whilst I think the parent commenter was well-intentioned, I think perhaps the downvotes were due to the perception of intruding on someone else's comment/subthread with promotion of one's own project. As for your own comments, you seem to have a campaign against HN going on. Yes the HN audience can be hard to understand sometimes, but on the whole it seems easy enough to do well here if you bring a generosity of spirit, and not so well if you bring combativeness and hostility. The guidelines [1] make it clear what we're expecting, and the first two words of the "In Comments" section are "Be kind". If you start with that then you'll be on solid ground. Regarding your username, we can't have usernames like this, because it effectively trolls the community every time you comment. So I've banned the account for now. You're welcome to register a new account with a normal username, or email us (hn@ycombinator.com ) asking us to change the username. We'd certainly be very happy to have you post interesting comments from your experience as a retired aerospace engineer or any other life experience you no doubt have. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html