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For the creator of this product (and to any other creators launching soon): don't listen to the keyboard jockeys saying it will fail. We (commenters here) are e
by bevan 3y ago
For the creator of this product (and to any other creators launching soon): don't listen to the keyboard jockeys saying it will fail. We (commenters here) are essentially NPCs in your world. We're not your narrow target market, just some gawkers addicted to typing "news.yc..." into our browsers, maybe with nothing better to do. And although we sound confident, we really don't know if it'll fail, or take off, or pivot to a successful product. Good luck--and major props on the launch, the landing page looks great!
ps. It will succeed.
- ant6n 3y ago> We're not your narrow target market, just some gawkers addicted to typing "news.yc..." into our browsers... Speak for yourself. I just type "n" into the browser.
- srge 3y agoSpeak for yourself, I just click on a shortcut
- ed_elliott_asc 3y agoSpeak for yourself, I find myself on the site and I don’t remember clicking anything. I was scrolling the news sites and mindlessly ended up here.
- saagarjha 3y agoSpeak for yourself, I just always have it open.
- feitingen 3y agoSpeak for yourself, I don't have anything else open.
- _bhrz 3y agoSpeak for yourself, all my traffic proxies here.
- Bud 3y ago[dead]
- ant6n 3y agoWell, that escalated quickly.
- endofreach 3y agoSpeak for yourself, i wrote a browser extension that replaces every link on any site with HN
- Snow_Falls 3y agoRSS for the win! Though, I need to check it in the browser because sometimes it misses things.
- dgellow 3y agoI just go back to the already opened HN tab :)
- tiborsaas 3y agoI type the full URL. In the gym, on a treadmill's browser. See, I'm not addicted.
- inhumantsar 3y ago> ...y-c-o-n fuck. y-c-o-m-b-u fuck y-c-o-m-b-i-m fuck etc
- qingcharles 3y agoSpeak for yourself, I forked Chromium and made it the default entry in the address bar and set it to read-only.
- NooneAtAll3 3y agoyou mean "h" for hackernews, right? ...right?
- epanchin 3y agoWhen Omegle shut down I looked here for when it was launched. All the replies to its first post, ~14 years ago, were negative. For the curious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=539753 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=539753
- mvkel 3y agoIn Omegle's case, was the criticism wrong? It was un-monetizable and ended under thumb of lawsuits.
- smithcoin 3y agobut it was a great ride while it lasted*
- uoaei 3y agoThe causes may have been obvious but the timeline estimates were way off.
- inhumantsar 3y agolook at the impact Omegle had and tell me it wasn't worth pursuing even if all those criticisms ended up being correct.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- mvkel 3y agowhat was its impact?
- ecshafer 3y agoI was literally searching for physical keyboard attachments for the iphone last night. This is almost exactly what I want. I think a slide out keyboard would be nicer, but this looks awesome.
- niutech 3y agoThis costs $35 and doesn't enlarge your iPhone: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000402875449.html https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000402875449.html or this is $7 and is easier to type than Clicks: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000982236230.html https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000982236230.html
- WhackyIdeas 3y agoI personally always type hackernews.org to get here.
- oblio 3y agoA purist, I see.
- stjohnswarts 3y agohttps://hckrnews.com/ https://hckrnews.com/ is my go to, I have it set to top 20/day otherwise I'd be on hacker news way too much/too long. It's a self limiting thing.