Alexis from Reddit has a hilarious site where you can send atrocious feedback:
http://feedbackfail.com/
Ask HN : What's the meanest thing that has been said about your startup?
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Re: Ask HN : What's the meanest thing that has been said about your startup?
#22Several years ago I co-founded a small game company. We busted our butt working 80 hours a week for months on end to get stuff done. We had one game that we shipped and were proud of; it was a budget game, but it was superior to many other games at that price point ($20).
Anyway, one reviewer wrote: "I would prefer the soothing comfort of a spork being gouged in my eye rather than playing a few more minutes of this game." Still makes me laugh, actually.
Re: Ask HN : What's the meanest thing that has been said about your startup?
#23The first web site I launched - I guess you could call it a start-up, though I didn't seek funding and tried to profit off of ads - had a bunch of criticisms, all of them true. Stuff like "This drop-down menu doesn't actually drop down" and "Your background is the exact color of my puking macaroni and cheese" and "I don't think 'error mySQL injection' counts as a web site." People would write stories and blog posts s…
that would be from a guy who called himself "crabapple," an account which has since been killed.
Re: Ask HN : What's the meanest thing that has been said about your startup?
#24I Like this tweet a while back:
"MIBBIT SUCKS BIG TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
It's actually pretty cool to get criticism IMHO, It shows people care. Also cool when your app is broken, and people scream at you... You have to look past the anger, and see that they are lost without your app, and love it dearly.
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#25Heh-- people have called RescueTime evil, especially in a work setting. Never hurt our feelings much-- we try to not go tooo far down the evil path, but we've always felt like a manager/biz owner has the right to say, "How are you spending your time?" and get an honest (and CORRECT) answer. A lot of people say, "Well, if I get my work done in 2 hours every day, I have a RIGHT to screw off for the other 6"... While we think that folks deserve some "down-time", I think there's such a thing as under-tasked and under-utilized team members who just need to have more work thrown their way. For a knowledge worker, it's trivially easy to hide when you don't have much work to do.
Re: Ask HN : What's the meanest thing that has been said about your startup?
#26i really don't take the mean comments too seriously, only the constructive ones where people actually want to help you out. filter everything else out.
Re: Ask HN : What's the meanest thing that has been said about your startup?
#27If you want to see mean, try writing essays.
Re: Ask HN : What's the meanest thing that has been said about your startup?
#28I think this is the wrong question.
Fake praise does a lot more damage than mean-spirited criticism. Because fake praise has nothing but well-meaning behind it, while mean-spirited criticism can actually point out things that need fixing. In addition, fake praise can mask a lot of flaws that should be fixed.
I'm of the mind that the more mean criticism you get the better off you probably are -- people at least took time to rag on you. Apathy is what really sucks.
Re: Ask HN : What's the meanest thing that has been said about your startup?
#29I think this is the wrong question. Fake praise does a lot more damage than mean-spirited criticism. Because fake praise has nothing but well-meaning behind it, while mean-spirited criticism can actually point out things that need fixing. In addition, fake praise can mask a lot of flaws that should be fixed. I'm of the mind that the more mean criticism you get the better off you probably are -- people at least took t…
That was the case here :
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=441797
When I started the thread, I didn't want to say that criticism is bad or should be avoided. I just wanted to have fun at what people are saying about startups.
Re: Ask HN : What's the meanest thing that has been said about your startup?
#30Not so much about our startup per se, but this is definitely the worst feedback we've ever received about the site:
"I will be bringing this [site] to the attention of my attorney who maintains a list of abusive web practices."