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Not trying to downtalk, but it took you 11 years to pull this off? This is some massively slow growth :D
Consider the wide variety of activities that the author has been involved in. Also consider that 750 Words was a side project, and not the primary focus of his attention.
This is an achievement worth respecting.
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I'm curious how you managed to post a comment about it on HN with Javascript disabled. Is it even possible to post here without using Javascript? (Maybe it is, I dunno.)
Why wouldn't it be? It's just HTML forms - with a server-side action.
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I didn't see any feedback. Just a statement of questionable veracity that reads negatively, to me at least.
I wouldn't jump to that conclusion. Given that many users here aren't native English speakers/writers, the tone that might seem obvious to you & I, might actually be completely inadvertent.
I'm curious why with $20K MRR it will take a Kickstarter to create a mobile app.
I've become the de facto internationalization expert at several companies and it's always rough. Everyone wants sentence structure to be simple and will fight you when you insist on something like interpolation instead of fancy string concatenation. Like Yoda, you will sound. Hmm!
And then there are straight up dodges like using Arabic numbers for everything in Japan because they have multiple counting systems. Apples and humans use different words when counting.
At the very least you will hire outside people to do the translations after you get the code in place to utilize them.
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"Just download 8 megabytes of javascript and wait 10 seconds for a page that's mainly made up of static content and should be under ~1mb and load instantly"
It's mostly text, isn't it? So more like 10kb.
A ctrl-R only loads about 20kb but still takes about half a second to render.
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I understand why you feel justified in this tone, because it would be absurd to assume a web application could work without Javascript in 2019. But like... a static blog post? Why bother with JS at all? It seems like creating more work that necessary, bloating downloads, increasing load speed, and for no reason blocking out people with JS disabled (so like, not just people using Firefox with plugins, but people that…
And since browsing the web via emacs is a huge market encompassing possibly upwards of .001% of all web traffic...
Not trying to downtalk, but it took you 11 years to pull this off? This is some massively slow growth :D
Not trying to downtalk But then you went ahead and did anyway...
"I said, 'With all due respect'!"
Not trying to downtalk, but it took you 11 years to pull this off? This is some massively slow growth :D
I'm curious why with $20K MRR it will take a Kickstarter to create a mobile app.
I don't know if this is the case here, but I think even if you don't really "need" the money, using Kickstarter can be a great way to get more exposure for a project as well as pre-selling/validating a product which reduces the risk of investing development time.