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It's going to be a self-fulfilling conspiracy. All this talk about how it's gonna succeed, and how noone understands it.. sooner or later, some misled company like FB or Google will just acqui-hire App.net for millions of dollars because everyone is talking about it.
Just like with Zynga and OMGPOP/Draw Something, and look how that ended up. :P
My current suspicion is that Dalton has no idea how to build what he wants, in fact he doesn't even know what the thing he wants is . So he's fanning the flames on this discussion to let everyone else come up with something for him.
How do you correlate that with the mostly-functional alpha which already has 90% of what I use twitter for?
I wasn't expecting anything functional for 5-6 months, and, as it exists, it's already mostly there.
My current suspicion is that Dalton has no idea how to build what he wants, in fact he doesn't even know what the thing he wants is . So he's fanning the flames on this discussion to let everyone else come up with something for him.
"Dalton has no idea how to build what he wants" How do you correlate that with the mostly-functional alpha which already has 90% of what I use twitter for? I wasn't expecting anything functional for 5-6 months, and, as it exists, it's already mostly there.
I don't mean technically. I'm sure Dalton is quite qualified to build anything he commits to. I mean he doesn't know how to build it because he doesn't know what he's building. (Yet.)
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"Dalton has no idea how to build what he wants" How do you correlate that with the mostly-functional alpha which already has 90% of what I use twitter for? I wasn't expecting anything functional for 5-6 months, and, as it exists, it's already mostly there.
>How do you correlate that with the mostly-functional alpha which already has 90% of what I use twitter for? I don't mean technically. I'm sure Dalton is quite qualified to build anything he commits to. I mean he doesn't know how to build it because he doesn't know what he's building. (Yet.)
Except the rules didn't really change.
So the author of this post can't see the reason why anyone would want to pay for this, and yet backed the project himself anyway? It reminds me of the people you see who write forums posts like 'I just got my first Mac, now what?' when the answer is always 'do whatever you wanted it for in the first place'
"yet backed the project himself anyway?" Per the OP: "By the way, I put my $50 in out of pure morbid curiosity of what’s under the hood." I think you can both think something probably isn't going to work or have issues with it and support it as a hedge or out of, as he said, "morbid curiosity". People do this with politics quite frequently.
Really? Do you have an example?
"I didn't really think the war in Iraq would go very well, and I don't really support it; I just wanted to see what would happen."
My current suspicion is that Dalton has no idea how to build what he wants, in fact he doesn't even know what the thing he wants is . So he's fanning the flames on this discussion to let everyone else come up with something for him.
I don't know what I want, but I'll know it when I see it.
Tautology is becoming a pattern on Subtle blog posts on HN.