You had me at "Left Buzzfeed".
That's where he lost me.
He didn't leave because he could no longer live with himself for working for those bottom-feeders, he did so because he saw a profit opportunity elsewhere.
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#42interesting but why is this a remote service that needs to parse in-browser content? if filtering is keyword based (as opposed to ml based), why not filter locally instead ?
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#43So much for changing the world, making a dent in the universe and all that, eh? How can someone build a COMPANY around a feature that does something so inconsequential and is basically "cute" at best? This is neither revolutionary nor innovative in my book.
I don't get it. No offense, but if this gets funding, then the Silicon Valley echo chamber has officially spread east and legitimate tech companies are doomed.
There are too many of these fly-by-night half-baked apps out there that people think they can become a millionaire from.
I can't wait until all this hype ends so people working on REAL problems can get back to doing REAL work.
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#44The writing on the site is creative and funny and the tag line at the top is to the point which is great:
"Replace anything you want in your social feeds with things you'd rather see, like cats."
Rarely do you see something like that which is so easy to understand.
One thing I would do (in addition to [1] below) is to have other words quickly replace "cats" perhaps by striking the word "cats" and overwriting with the new word. People get the joke with cats but it's probably not a bad idea to intersperse some serious stuff (right their in the tag line) as well.
[1] The word "rather" as others have mentioned needs to be distinct in typography so people understand it's the branding. Bold, different typeface, different weight, a graphic etc.
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#45So much for changing the world, making a dent in the universe and all that, eh? How can someone build a COMPANY around a feature that does something so inconsequential and is basically "cute" at best? This is neither revolutionary nor innovative in my book. I don't get it. No offense, but if this gets funding, then the Silicon Valley echo chamber has officially spread east and legitimate tech companies are doomed. Th…
Whatever you are doing is likely not as important or helpful as you think it is.
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#46So much for changing the world, making a dent in the universe and all that, eh? How can someone build a COMPANY around a feature that does something so inconsequential and is basically "cute" at best? This is neither revolutionary nor innovative in my book. I don't get it. No offense, but if this gets funding, then the Silicon Valley echo chamber has officially spread east and legitimate tech companies are doomed. Th…
Well that was a pretty mean thing to say. Not everything needs to be a cure for cancer or fix peak oil. We need some room for leisure. If the author had fun making something that provides him with some cash, I don't see what the harm is. That just leaves more easy "real" problems for people like you to go out and solve.
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#47What is the eventual revenue model for this? It seems this is going to take quite a bit of computing to remain a free chrome extension for too long.
Revenue? What are you talking about? Big Exit™ is where it is at these days.
Big ExitTM's Big ExitTM will come from suing everyone who says Big ExitTM. I have no idea how to superscript
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can see selling replacements. Like you don't want to see the Red Sox, maybe the yankees pay to replace all things red socks.
That would completely defeat the purpose of the extension.
Well, if I say that I'd rather see Yankees news instead of Red Sox posts, different baseball sites could pay to have their Yankees content be what replaces the Red Sox content.
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#49So much for changing the world, making a dent in the universe and all that, eh? How can someone build a COMPANY around a feature that does something so inconsequential and is basically "cute" at best? This is neither revolutionary nor innovative in my book. I don't get it. No offense, but if this gets funding, then the Silicon Valley echo chamber has officially spread east and legitimate tech companies are doomed. Th…
Well that was a pretty mean thing to say. Not everything needs to be a cure for cancer or fix peak oil. We need some room for leisure. If the author had fun making something that provides him with some cash, I don't see what the harm is. That just leaves more easy "real" problems for people like you to go out and solve.
It's not mean, it's the truth. How many of you are going to pay for this? Honestly. This is a feature, not a COMPANY. Plain and simple.