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Poe’s best-selling book during his lifetime was a guide to seashells

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Re: Poe’s best-selling book during his lifetime was a guide to seashells

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Similarly, I've been writing respectable, sophisticated software for decades but I'm fairly certain that my most widely used piece of software, by a wide margin, is a mildly pornographic app (http://driftwheeler.com)

Other projects I've published have a trickle of users. But this app, published in 2017, has a continuously growing population of users from all over the world. I get email every day asking whether soft1 is the only server, thanking me, suggesting improvements, etc.

It's ironic, and there is a difficult lesson to be learned from this reality.

Re: Poe’s best-selling book during his lifetime was a guide to seashells

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I don't know what this is supposed to prove. Poe was a failure whose writing was never popular during his lifetime. The fact that he is better known since his death is entirely due to the activist efforts by Ivory Tower academics and English teachers to make the rambling writings of an ancient hack into mandatory reading for students.

Re: Poe’s best-selling book during his lifetime was a guide to seashells

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Similarly, I've been writing respectable, sophisticated software for decades but I'm fairly certain that my most widely used piece of software, by a wide margin, is a mildly pornographic app ( http://driftwheeler.com ) Other projects I've published have a trickle of users. But this app, published in 2017, has a continuously growing population of users from all over the world. I get email every day asking whether soft…

Probably the lesson is most stuff boils down to product market fit. Speaking of product: the app is not available through play store, isn't it?

Re: Poe’s best-selling book during his lifetime was a guide to seashells

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Once, upon a midnight dreary, While I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious seashell, Gathered from some forgotten shore ...

Lenore sells seas shells by a sea shore

And the seagulls uttered 'nevermore'

Re: Poe’s best-selling book during his lifetime was a guide to seashells

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Once, upon a midnight dreary, While I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious seashell, Gathered from some forgotten shore ...

Lenore sells seas shells by a sea shore

Sea-shell-strewn, she sleeps in her sounding-sea-shore sepulchre.
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