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It's sad that people call their little/fun projects useless. I just used your project and thought it was awesome. And even the worst project ever is useful for
by kurtvarner 14y ago
It's sad that people call their little/fun projects useless. I just used your project and thought it was awesome. And even the worst project ever is useful for you. It's how you learn, build and explore. Plus, some truly great things have started out as "useless."
- StavrosK 14y agoAwesome and useful are orthogonal. I found it awesome too, but I have no use for it.
- soccerniru 14y agoI wouldn't say that they are necessarily orthogonal, in fact, I would say that most of the time they align pretty well.
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- sadlyNess 14y agoIn what is usually described as a sweet spot or what Steve would call good design.
- olalonde 14y agoSadly, it's often a good idea to preface "Show HN" submissions with this nowadays so that someone else doesn't tell you how useless your project is in the comments thread.
- instakill 14y agoIt's the analogous of Reddit comments starting with "I know this will be downvoted but..."
- olalonde 14y agoSort of, except that this is usually considered as down vote baiting on HN and is frowned upon. From HN's guidelines: "Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downmod you."[0]. In this case though, I don't feel it was OP's intention to invite down votes. [0] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- chezmo 14y agoThanks for the kind words!
- thisisdallas 14y agoExactly this. If the op learned anything at all from this project I would argue that it is in fact far from useless. Great job on setting a goal and creating something, op!
- JonnieCache 14y agoAll art is quite useless - Oscar Wilde Perhaps "pointless" or "aimless" might be better than useless, but a useless item can be a item which exists merely to delight the mind/spirit. Of course, internet pedants and other cutting edge point-missers would likely argue that this is in fact itself a use. Such is the way of things. Maybe "intrinsically motivated" would be a more HN compatible term.