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I just wanted to say that you could try a bit harder to justify the price rather than just saying it's "negligible". I think that's very subjective and I person
by renw0rp 5y ago
I just wanted to say that you could try a bit harder to justify the price rather than just saying it's "negligible". I think that's very subjective and I personally don't think it's a reasonable price to pay for just storing markdown files in the cloud.
- liampmccabe 5y ago"just storing markdown files" Ironically you could do the same with your replies.
- samhw 5y agoYeah, I 100% agree. It's rather tonedeaf to criticise that commenter for diminishing the cost, and then diminish in exactly the same way the work involved in creating this. And I'm so tired of the game of "describe a successful tech product in a way that makes it sound silly". Yeah, Twitter is just storing a load of VARCHAR(240)s, and Facebook is just an undirected graph, and Jackson Pollock's paintings are just splatters, etc. I could build it myself! Except... I don't, because it's not that easy, and I know it isn't when I think about it for more than 1.7 seconds.
- renw0rp 5y agoStoring, updating and deleting varchars is what most of enterprise and startup developers do for living. It can't be that hard.
- samhw 5y agoSure, in which case you're welcome to build every tool yourself. Me, I'll carry on doing what I specialise in for a living, and use a trivial crumb of my earnings to pay someone else for lovingly-made readymade products. Same way I do for my WiFi router, for my readymade mac & cheese, etc. viz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage
- WaltonGoggins 5y agoSure I can but I didn't think it was necessary. I used to hand-write my notes, filling a £10 moleskine journal every month or so. Supernotes saves me £4 per month and I get the benefits of all of it's features.
- dmonitor 5y agoSupernotes is competing with more than just pen/paper