Ask HN: A Well Funded Competitor Has Launched Before Me What Should I do?

Post by rfergie » Sun, Aug 28, 2011, 9:21 AM UTC

dasil003 wrote: post #56

sgt wrote: post #48

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"In terms of productivity, it can be 10-15x." Any sources on this? Or is it primarily based on your own experience?

I'm curions about this too. Haskell is my hobby language right now, I'm still an uber-noob, but my impression is Haskell code is easily 10-15x more robust , but not necessarily more productive than cool-kid languages (Ruby, Python, Javascript).

Post by callmeed » Mon, Aug 29, 2011, 2:00 AM UTC

aculver wrote: post #43

The exact same thing happened to me a little over a month ago. A few days before the launch of http://limelightapp.com/ , we saw http://app.net/ show up on the front page of HN. Initially, my heart sunk. (You've already felt this, I'm sure.) Thankfully I was sitting next to my wife on the couch, who had the good sense to say: "Go grab a beer." I took her advice. In the end, I can honestly say that having http://app.n…