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Ask HN: Similar communities to HN that are less cynical?
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Re: Ask HN: Similar communities to HN that are less cynical?
#22I do not know the answer to your question and I can see why you feel this way.
If I were going to start up a new company I would want a significant team of cynical people and think-tanks to pick apart my ideas and plans. Having said that I would take all the input with a grain of salt being the worst case scenario but I would not waste that information and would have my board members debate each and every point that members of HN brought up. We would risk rank each item and assign a score based on whatever metrics we can get and integrate that into our business plans and SEC paperwork.
Why would I want to subject myself and others to this? I have lived through the dot-bomb era of investors and business leaders wearing rose tinted glasses then making off with money leaving a pile of dust in their wake and putting many people out of work and holding worthless stock certificates. This is still a thing to a lesser degree. I believe this uncomfortable exercise could lend itself to showing an attempt at due diligence of fiduciary responsibility.
All of that said I can see how a product developer could find this exercise disheartening.
Re: Ask HN: Similar communities to HN that are less cynical?
#23Reddit is less cynical but the reality is that tech is being abused to a pretty extreme degree.
The world sucks, you can either ignore it or embrace it.
Re: Ask HN: Similar communities to HN that are less cynical?
#24I'm so long on hn now I get more the feeling that I'm seeing less and less really new things. Doesn't mean it's bad it's just less interesting than it was 5 years ago. Another startup idea from a person who just want to have a startup/unicorn. Another hack. Another blog article about security deep dive. Another retro post of someone doing something like running win95 somewhere or doom running on a pregnancy test. The…
doom running on a pregnancy test
:)
Re: Ask HN: Similar communities to HN that are less cynical?
#25I'm so long on hn now I get more the feeling that I'm seeing less and less really new things. Doesn't mean it's bad it's just less interesting than it was 5 years ago. Another startup idea from a person who just want to have a startup/unicorn. Another hack. Another blog article about security deep dive. Another retro post of someone doing something like running win95 somewhere or doom running on a pregnancy test. The…
doom running on a pregnancy test :)
Re: Ask HN: Similar communities to HN that are less cynical?
#26Look for a place with poorer, and/or dumber, people.
Consider it deeply before you flag it.