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Show HN: I’m an introvert – made an app to help maintain connections with people
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Re: Show HN: I’m an introvert – made an app to help maintain connections with people
#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
The more important factor is the actual execution. And the reality is this is has been done, many, many times. In fact a friend recently wrote a version of this in order to learn Swift. Ultimately it’s a social problem not a technological problem. I don’t think this is quite hitting the nail on the end. The author said part of the motivation was that his gf wanted periodic reach outs during the day. Automating this i…
I disagree. Your product is not alone in the world. If you give yourself a handicap (bad name), a competitor will clone your app, use a much easier name, capture all your target audience and leave you holding the bag.
But who is the competitor? And the audience?
My point is this has been done N times, and has never really stuck. So either the idea is bad (but common), the executions are all bad, it’s never been marketed right, or the timing is off.
I’m not saying names aren’t important, but it’s a small part of success. Many big products with terrible names out there.
I’d actually be curious to know if it’s ever been the case where something was identically cloned with a better name and _that_ was the reason for the competitors success.
Re: Show HN: I’m an introvert – made an app to help maintain connections with people
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I feel like you're conflating the friction of starting a conversation with the friction of continuing one, which can be very different things.
There's no friction in starting something you love to do. If you don't love talking to someone that you don't have to talk to, you shouldn't do it. You're putting them in the awkward position of having to converse with someone that they know doesn't want to converse with them. And yes, they'll know. The dryness of the sample messages is tip-off enough. Personally, I hate hearing from people like this -- not because I…
> There's no friction in starting something you love to do.
Man, if that's truly the experience of your life I envy you on an incredibly deep level.
Struggling to start doing things I genuinely love to do has been a continual source of significant frustration throughout my life.
Re: Show HN: I’m an introvert – made an app to help maintain connections with people
#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
I disagree. Your product is not alone in the world. If you give yourself a handicap (bad name), a competitor will clone your app, use a much easier name, capture all your target audience and leave you holding the bag.
But who is the competitor? And the audience? My point is this has been done N times, and has never really stuck. So either the idea is bad (but common), the executions are all bad, it’s never been marketed right, or the timing is off. I’m not saying names aren’t important, but it’s a small part of success. Many big products with terrible names out there. I’d actually be curious to know if it’s ever been the case wher…
If this starts making money, the competitors will appear everywhere.
Re: Show HN: I’m an introvert – made an app to help maintain connections with people
#185Re: Show HN: I’m an introvert – made an app to help maintain connections with people
#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Re: Show HN: I’m an introvert – made an app to help maintain connections with people
#187I don't think AI generated spam is going to help your relationships... Sorry dude
Re: Show HN: I’m an introvert – made an app to help maintain connections with people
#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been hearing people equate forgetting with not caring for my entire life. It took me years to realize that they - and you - just can't conceive of someone who's mind operates in a way so fundamentally different from their own. So they put their values onto us, and blame us for not living up to them. I don't blame you - that level of empathy is a hard thing to find - but damn am I tired of hearing this.
Not trying to be judgmental here, just trying to get your take. But if one of your close friends got cancer and died a few months later, would you ever get to say goodbye to them? Given the other descriptions in this thread, it seems like you wouldn't unless they or someone they were close to reached out to you to let you know. If that was the case and I was your friend and I died with zero contact from you, I would…
> That is how I would feel about it
That's also an exceptional circumstance. If I had awareness of my friend's situation, I'd contact them; but that's because the urgency pushes it to the front of my mind making it something that I can't forget or postpone.
Re: Show HN: I’m an introvert – made an app to help maintain connections with people
#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fair enough. But I can still post comments?
Banned accounts can still post comments, but their comments are killed by default - that is, they're marked as [dead] and only users with 'showdead' turned on in their profile can see them. If enough users vouch for a [dead] post, it gets restored. But why not read the site guidelines and take the intended spirit of this site to heart instead? We're happy to unban accounts when people give us reason to believe that t…
Hey dang, thank you for the comment and the explanations. I'm obviously overreacted, I'll try to avoid comments like that in the future.
Re: Show HN: I’m an introvert – made an app to help maintain connections with people
#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
Banned accounts can still post comments, but their comments are killed by default - that is, they're marked as [dead] and only users with 'showdead' turned on in their profile can see them. If enough users vouch for a [dead] post, it gets restored. But why not read the site guidelines and take the intended spirit of this site to heart instead? We're happy to unban accounts when people give us reason to believe that t…
Hey dang, thank you for the comment and the explanations. I'm obviously overreacted, I'll try to avoid comments like that in the future.
Ok, I've unbanned your account. Please stick to the guidelines in the future and all should be fine :)