Fuckthis.app – Software products for exasperated people

This is great! What this page doesn't explain, though, is why the author will resist the urge to make more money when one of the products becomes popular.

The other products he talks about didn't turn shitty because the founders just hate babies, but because they like money. The author doesn't go into enough detail on why he doesn't like money.

> My favorite example is expense-tracking software.

> some angel investor . . . said, "what if we issued our own credit cards and then kept all the swipe fees for ourselves?" [in lieu of a monthly fee]

> employees were strong-armed into . . . those corporate cards . . . even if it meant losing out on literal thousands of dollars in cash back and rewards from their personal cards

So the employee should be able to benefit from allocating the company's spending to their card's swipe fees (where said rewards come from), but it's wrong when the company itself wants to benefit from the swipe fees on the transactions that they are actually paying for (via discounted expense software)?

As the author, I can answer this: because I believe there is such a thing as "enough money." And I'm personally at a point where the decision in my mind is not between "build a great product that makes less money" vs "release a compromised product that makes more money". Instead, the decision is "build this app for my own private use" vs "release it and put up with dealing with users so that others can use too". And I'm genuinely on the fence about the latter most of the time.

Also, I have a proven track record of stopping doing things once they've run their course, so I'm pretty confident I'll be able to resist the temptation. Recent evidence: announcing my latest conference talk would be my final one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loTaZAkIZP0

I created an issue tracker for home use. It just displays list of issues with due date. You can filter by this week, month or all. You can edit the issues. That's all it does. No auth. No fancy frameworks. I have been more productive with this than any other todo or issue tracker app I've tried to use.

Seriously people just build something up for yourself. With AI to help we can come up with fully working prototype in no time. Maggie has term for this and she articulated far better than me in this post https://maggieappleton.com/home-cooked-software

This comes to mind whenever I get screwed over by big corporate (Hi there, Lenovo). Perhaps the website could be just a ranking of products and have people vote/downvote/comment and add additional info. The problem with these platforms is that they are super biased (only angry customers will visit to downvote). I get making a bad-product ranking website to advise potential customers, but how to avoid it becoming an echo chamber?