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Ask HN: What happened to startups, why is everything so polished?
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Re: Ask HN: What happened to startups, why is everything so polished?
#52Yes, it all looks very hollow, more marketing front than anything of substance, the marketing copy often bordering on cringe (“beautiful”, “awesome”).
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#53Re: Ask HN: What happened to startups, why is everything so polished?
#54Haha check our scrappy website https://opral.com We got a bug report once that „the website is not loading“.
There used to be several star-architect offices that had white background at their website with only black text for contact. While other firms had shiny websites with all project in huge pictures.
But these were just like "me shit is out there and you already know it".
Re: Ask HN: What happened to startups, why is everything so polished?
#55Everyone is "fake it 'til you make it" today.
But Microsoft really was, too. There was some story about a shared tie that was worn to talk to the "shirts" at IBM in the early days. No idea about garters, which were also part of the IBM dress code at the time.
Not sure about Apple's early days, but there are certainly many stories of Jobs' "reality distortion field."
Re: Ask HN: What happened to startups, why is everything so polished?
#56Haha check our scrappy website https://opral.com We got a bug report once that „the website is not loading“.
I would suggest to fix the orthography to “PS: Nothing is broken about this page. It's just simple on purpose. :)”. Simplicity is nice, but correct punctuation and capitalization is also appreciated as a proxy indicator for professional diligence.
Re: Ask HN: What happened to startups, why is everything so polished?
#57Re: Ask HN: What happened to startups, why is everything so polished?
#58Haha check our scrappy website https://opral.com We got a bug report once that „the website is not loading“.
I would suggest to fix the orthography to “PS: Nothing is broken about this page. It's just simple on purpose. :)”. Simplicity is nice, but correct punctuation and capitalization is also appreciated as a proxy indicator for professional diligence.
fixed the capitalization https://github.com/opral/monorepo/commit/6127c6899290b35442c...
Re: Ask HN: What happened to startups, why is everything so polished?
#59Re: Ask HN: What happened to startups, why is everything so polished?
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, and I suspect GP was being sarcastic.
What is unclear? we know that we haven't nailed communication yet. one team member is working full time on communication/the website
I have no idea what “globalization ecosystem” is supposed to mean. There is a list of software components (“products”) I’m probably supposed to see a use for, but why would I go to that website to browse them? There is mention of “inlang projects”, but what is “inlang” and why would I have such a project? There is mention of “plugins for inlang”, but again, what is inlang and why does it need plugins?