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Not everyone is going to like the thing you made, and that’s okay

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Re: Not everyone is going to like the thing you made, and that’s okay

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Post by yRetsyM »

pkteison wrote: post #3

I find human opinion fascinating, and look forward to the glorious future when we can do better than up/down arrows. Looking at a site like Rotten Tomatoes, where the metric is "professional reviewer thought thing was at least decent" and seeing that there is surprisingly little agreement even on such a simple metric (even a terrible movie, like Season Of The Witch, has a 10 so 10% of the reviews like it; even a grea…

unfortunately the fear of a company knowing too much in order to "sell" you, I.e. the privacy debate that is so rightly ongoing would restrict or otherwise cloud ambitions in this arena I fear.

Re: Not everyone is going to like the thing you made, and that’s okay

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Post by baby »

I've had this with this my personal take of 750words ( can be found here and it's in french so I doubt it's interesting to anyone here : 3pages.fr ), I'm getting a lot of feedback :

* There are people who love you because your application is changing their life

* There are people who gives you pertinent feedback.

* There are people who just don't get it and are suggesting core modifications.

I often ignore the last kind of people because I have a principal view on how I want things to be and making something should be about that. You cannot please everyone and you should focus on pleasing you first.

Re: Not everyone is going to like the thing you made, and that’s okay

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Post by roberthahn »

[deleted] wrote: post #13

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I disagree with your assertion. As a developer and entrepreneur, I get why you'd say that. As an artist (I have a B.A. in Fine Arts), I believe that sentiment is something we need a LOT more of.

Not everybody has the ability to make something new. That ability is powerful, empowering, and affirming. I believe that if someone, by virtue of creating something that didn't exist before, ended up feeling better about themselves, then frankly, that's PLENTY worthwhile enough. We need MORE people who feel good about themselves in this world, not less.

That, my friend, is where Wil is coming from.

Re: Not everyone is going to like the thing you made, and that’s okay

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Post by flipside »

pkteison wrote: post #3

I find human opinion fascinating, and look forward to the glorious future when we can do better than up/down arrows. Looking at a site like Rotten Tomatoes, where the metric is "professional reviewer thought thing was at least decent" and seeing that there is surprisingly little agreement even on such a simple metric (even a terrible movie, like Season Of The Witch, has a 10 so 10% of the reviews like it; even a grea…

Sounds like you want a multi-dimensional rating system that works. Patience, it's coming. We're focused on doing it right.

1. Sign up at http://tinj.com

2. ...

3. Profit... I mean, we'll let you know when we launch.

Re: Not everyone is going to like the thing you made, and that’s okay

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Post by stcredzero »

Disappointing truth be told, Theodore Sturgeon's observation certainly applies to programmers talking. Mostly because the same ratios apply to the quality of programmers listening.

Most programmers are quick to pigeonhole you and what you say. Pay attention to their conclusions and note how careful they are(n't) about gathering enough info to arrive at those conclusions. Look for signs to see if they are skeptical of their own mental models.

This is how to pick who you should work with.

Re: Not everyone is going to like the thing you made, and that’s okay

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Post by NAFV_P »

sgdesign wrote: post #7

You should also remember that anybody giving you a negative reaction might just be having a bad day for totally different factors. This is especially true on social media, where it's so easy to blow off some steam by writing a snarky remark without thinking about how it's going to be interpreted. So whenever someone isn't very nice with me, I prefer to assume that they're a nice person who just happens to have bumped…

So whenever someone isn't very nice with me, I prefer to assume that they're a nice person who just happens to have bumped their toe into a table leg or something.

Nice persons tend to apologise, if they don't apologise they are probably arseholes.

Re: Not everyone is going to like the thing you made, and that’s okay

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Post by carterschonwald »

flipside wrote: post #16
pkteison wrote: post #3

I find human opinion fascinating, and look forward to the glorious future when we can do better than up/down arrows. Looking at a site like Rotten Tomatoes, where the metric is "professional reviewer thought thing was at least decent" and seeing that there is surprisingly little agreement even on such a simple metric (even a terrible movie, like Season Of The Witch, has a 10 so 10% of the reviews like it; even a grea…

Sounds like you want a multi-dimensional rating system that works. Patience, it's coming. We're focused on doing it right. 1. Sign up at http://tinj.com 2. ... 3. Profit... I mean, we'll let you know when we launch.

ranking / rating done right/optimally seems to be a highly problem specific challenge. What problem domains are you focusing on?
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