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> Add a link to your startup please. What, you want others to exceed the meanness level? ;-)
When people are mean to your startup, it usually mean that you are working on something good. But you're right that someone may not want to link his product. I'll change it.
This was the lamest thing I've ever tried. It starts by popping up disjointed out of place overlapping windows then an alert box pops up telling me that I don't have a 64MB video card just to make it appear to be an advanced piece of software, sorry I only have a Radeon 7000 32MB and that my computer isn't good enough for this piece of shit software. The UI is crap, it's way too buggy to take seriously and it's down right ugly. I felt like I had a red headed step-child with head lice on my computer. It does work great with AppZapper.
You are no PhotoShop, keep dreaming. I really hate when people spew things that just aren't true.
This was not actually said about my startup but a good friend of mine’s startup, before he even got a chance to finish introducing his startup to his former class mates one of them said: ‘Wow that’s cute!’ They all replied ‘Yeah that’s very nice!’ 2 years later he had $20M in the bank and had employed 3 of those friends.
Except the comment about our passion - questioning how we could devote so much time to "making [tickets] a bit cheaper". As PG pointed out, it's never been about the tickets, it's about the event themselves. Think about the top 20 moments in your life, chances are one of them occurred at a sporting event, concert or show. That's why I love what I do. Oh and because all that stuff is now a tax write-off for me :).
Unfortunately, the link is to Hacker News:
Since we launched on Techcrunch, we were barraged with criticism. Some of it was constructive, some not so much. Honestly, none of it bothered me or my cofounder (tdavis) as we laughed up the ugly and took the rest as free consulting. Except the comment about our passion - questioning how we could devote so much time to "making [tickets] a bit cheaper". As PG pointed out, it's never been about the tickets, it's about…
we got this one: "IF YOU TYPE TO ME ONE MORE TIME I’LL SUE YOUR BUTT OFF OF THIS COUNTRY!!!"
In the end I listened to all words and used the feedback to evolve our product. Nowadays, we see more positive talk (not sure about here) about our product(still evolving) then we did prior to the HN feedback.
Find the various HN posts here http://searchyc.com/sleep.fm
My current one hasn't publicly launched yet; the only complaint I've had is that the font looks icky on Internet Explorer. (We use Times New Roman as our base, tweaked to look nice; it actually looks quite good on everything other than IE. We might inject CSS that changes the font to Verdana or Helvetica, but most fonts in IE look pretty bad.) I did get a nice insult thread on Hacker News from one guy who told me something like "You're wasting your youth on a shitty idea that nobody likes" without knowing what my startup was.
A personal story: In middle school, I was a chubby kid and my sport teacher made fun of me telling me I could not run a 5 miles contest because my heart may stop beating. I told my dad, my best friend, begging him not to complain at school. I saw the anger on his face and he told me one thing: prove him wrong son! I started running every day and lost tons of weight.
At my last year of high school the teacher was still around. One day I challenge him in front of a bunch of student and some teachers to run the five miles against him. He was dumb to accept because he failed to realize that I was no more the chubby kid, I was thinner and about 4 inches taller than him. I ran the first 4 miles right behind him and past him at the last mile. I remember the humiliation he put me in years back and called him names on the last stretch in front of everyone. He was crushed; I had my revenge and still feel good about it today.