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With the right lego pieces, you can do a lot. All depends on what libraries you can use. It could also be they're re-using stuff they work on day-to-day anyway.
by unconed 14y ago
With the right lego pieces, you can do a lot. All depends on what libraries you can use. It could also be they're re-using stuff they work on day-to-day anyway.
- Mz 14y agoYou remind me of the guy who made up a t-shirt that said something like "I survived snow-pocalypse". He slapped it together and got it online really quickly, it went viral (in part because he jumped on it, as it was a time sensitive item), and he made a good chunk of change in short order. When asked, he indicated he had longstanding experience with both making t-shirts and doing stuff online. So, yes, he did it "in a weekend" (in a day or two, though I don't know if it was literally Saturday and Sunday). But there was many years of prior experience which helped make that possible.
- witoldc 14y agoHow true. Usually, it's buried somewhere in the fine print that their uncle is a tshirt print maker, dad is a wholesaler and they have done different tshirts in the past and have a big blog with a big audience to promote on. The devil's in the details. For HN projects, people are also probably reusing their own prior work and code. They might have done something very similar for a different industry, or tweeking the purpose and application of something old to create something new.