Ask HN: Are you put off building something because it already exists?

Post by collinmanderson » Fri, May 10, 2019, 2:10 AM UTC

Const-me wrote: post #219

mijoharas wrote: post #211

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Increases entry barrier, centralizing internet even more. For-profit internet companies have zero issues paying for certificates, it’s part of their business. It raises barrier for ordinary people. Also creates more incentive for placing ads on their web sites to reduce costs. Guess who earns most profits from internet ads? Lets encrypt is one obvious thing to mention here, besides removing the cost barrier to entr…

> it really is quite simple to set up I haven’t tried but I think it’s only simple is you’re willing to manually renew every 90 days. I’m not willing to. Automatic renewals are only simple for popular environments like LAMP, my web server runs Windows server with IIS and old school asp.net. I can run arbitrary native code on that server, but I don’t have GUI access to that machine. But even if it would be super-easy…