> realize you on the path to make $100K on an app that, rightly or wrongly, could impact other people's livelihoods Because someone giving me 100k for an app w

> realize you on the path to make $100K on an app that, rightly or wrongly, could impact other people's livelihoods Because someone giving me 100k for an app which wrote, to use it for the exact purpose I made it for is certainly /the/ reason I would change my mind about making it... > and subject me to a torrent of unpleasantness. But that’ll end soon enough, and that’s better than how I’d feel if I kept going. What he doesn't say is that he is obviously already getting what amounts to a "torrent of unpleasantness", from people which are more like colleagues than customers. Of course, no one wants to admit to kowtowing, so there is no mention of it, but as we can see, he cares about this sort of thing, so it was obviously a significant factor.