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Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

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The hidden cost is also the removal of competition. Google get more heat for browser "monopoly" when they even provide a free browser base for others to customise, and Microsoft gets almost none for incredibly overwhelmingly anti-competitive behaviour around lock-in to Office, Teams, Sharepoint, Azure.

Microsoft charged with EU antitrust violations for bundling Teams (The Verge, 25 Jun 2024) – https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/25/24185467/microsoft-teams-...

It's true. But I was more talking about how they're respectively considered in HN commentland.

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

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Because otherwise they aren't actually arguing that it's okay for ICE to do the things you say they do; they're arguing that it's okay for ICE to do the things they do, per their own perception of what those things actually are. If the distinction doesn't make sense to you, it would be better to take a break from all political discussion on the Internet. This kind of outside view is essential to actual productive dis…

This isn’t a perception thing. ICE is breaking down the doors of people, arresting others without warrants or identifying themselves. They’re deporting people to a concentration camp in a foreign country that no one has ever left alive. Just because people choose to not educate themselves doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. And as a matter of fact, I’ve heard plenty of people arguing that all of these things are good and…

>This isn’t a perception thing

Yes, it is. It very much is, and until you understand the simple ideas I explain below, I don't consider you qualified to discuss political matters in a space like HN.

Since my previous comments weren't enough of a hint (I didn't really expect them to be, because I've dealt with people using rhetoric like yours before), I'll go ahead and give a detailed explanation.

Again, here's the part I quoted from your original comment:

> semantic arguments about why it’s ok for ICE to bust down random doors looking for brown people to deport to the death camps

You said they bust down "random" doors. That is not the same thing as saying that they don't have a warrant. It's saying that they target essentially whoever they feel like, or that they go through neighbourhoods and randomly choose places to enter without any a priori reason to expect a legitimate deportation candidate to be there.

You said that they are "looking for brown people". That is to say, you use common rhetorical flair to imply that this is not only racially motivated, but motivated specifically by the racism of ICE themselves. Not only that, you suppose the sort of folk racism that puts Mexicans and Central Americans in the same category as Middle Easterners and South and South-East Asians. You do this without evidence, and against simple real-world observations that would tend to refute it.

You said that they do this "to deport [them] to the death camps". To support this claim, it's not sufficient to show that they go "to a concentration camp in a foreign country that no one has ever left alive"[0]. To support "who are deported to death camps", you would have to show that ICE directly and knowingly causes them to go to such camps. But to support "to deport them to the death camps", you would additionally have to show that this is their specific intent - i.e. that the ICE agents expressly believe that their targets should die, and that they have the goal of ensuring their deaths abroad - rather than the actually stated goal of, you know, just having them off American soil.

> Just because people choose to not educate themselves doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen.

1. Please read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(philosophy) and make sure you understand how it applies to your political engagement here.

2. Please contemplate how many things might exist in the world about which you know absolutely nothing, and then re-consider whether the phrase "choose not to educate themselves" is at all coherent.

> And as a matter of fact, I’ve heard plenty of people arguing that all of these things are good and that ICE should do them.

I absolutely believe that you've seen people argue that, for example, ICE can be excused for not having had a warrant, identifying themselves etc. if they successfully located and extradited someone not lawfully entitled to be within the USA. I also absolutely believe you've seen people argue that whatever happens after that point is not ICE's concern.

But I don't believe you've seen people make the claims you think they have.[1] I think you've simply failed to understand the massive differences between what they're actually saying and what you think they're saying. I furthermore think this is a result of your personal attitude towards political topics, and that you need to fix this before you can have a productive discussion on HN.

[0]: Although you do have to evidence that and not just assert it. And I really do think this would be an extraordinary claim, because even some disproven, sensationalized claims I saw people make during Trump's first term involved "concentration camps" being within the US and not at all fatal, merely inhumane. Further, ICE has existed continuously since 2003, through Obama and Biden's presidencies - three-letter agencies simply don't change their operations that radically simply because of who is president.

[1]: On the flip side, though: during Trump's first term, I saw video evidence of ICE protesters shouting N-bombs at ICE agents, or at least people they believed to be ICE agents - in what appeared to be a rural environment, as I recall. As far as I could discern and remember, all parties involved were white. This is not to say anything in support of ICE or against their detractors in general. It's simply to illustrate that there's a wide world out there, and there certainly could be people saying the things you claim to have seen, too. I just don't believe it occurs in good faith on HN, and I have ample reason to believe you're mistaken in that.

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

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I just pin it in my browser now. I don't really get anything out of using the app version.

That is an even worse experience IMHO.

What? How? It's the exact same experience, but without needing to run a heavy electron app.

These are...identical apps. That's the point of packaging with electron.

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

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There is good reason why these posts don’t regularly make front page. The genre of content is regularly abused by hypesters. There is a forum / podcast dedicated to this kind of success story and it is just massive cheerleading and success bias. If you go look for it, you’ll find it. HN readers achieving this success either don’t need or don’t want the attention that might come with this kind of content marketing. It…

Are you talking about Indie Hackers? Why speak in riddles, it isn't a secret.

I also was confused by why he was being so cryptic about a very popular forum.

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

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You can make money through anything that has a decent market size. Slack addons or plugins used to be a good example before it was acquired by Salesforce.

what else is there then? google, microsoft, apple, some chinese companies. can't think of anything else with a large market for apps.

Post is old by now, but I've had this spreadsheet bookmarked for years:https://medium.com/point-nine-news/a-landscape-of-the-major-...

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

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Having interviewed many people from there, I can only assume they hire anyone with a pulse and give them major features to write in a language they don’t know.

I'm unfortunately using Teams. It's really such a comprehensive piece of shit. I can't share photos in a channel w/ a customer. Why? No idea. There's no feedback at all. Drag and drop simply fails. Uploads won't go. I went through support and there's 5 different places in the admin to check. All of them seem fine.

I had an issue with drag and drop which to me is just related to a very crappy UI. I have to drag and drop my file exactly inside my small chatbox, and if it's in another place, it won't work. Such nonsense.

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

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That is an even worse experience IMHO.

What? How? It's the exact same experience, but without needing to run a heavy electron app. These are...identical apps. That's the point of packaging with electron.

Because it is now a browser tab instead of a stand alone app. Running things in the browser is even worse that electron imho.

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

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For c#/cpp visual studio is really, really good

as someone who works in visual studio on c# every day of my life, I have the opposite opinion. it's awful

In how many programming ecosystems have you worked in?

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

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The number of new and novel ways companies (Microsoft and Apple specifically) have found to screw up search is mind boggling. And we're not talking edge cases, just "It's been solved since the 60s" meat and potato use cases.

> to screw up search is mind boggling. it's because they hired "frontend" developers to develop these features, likely someone with little actual compsci experience, and have little to no room to make the feature and under a tight deadline.

The article is about a product written in Express(Node) and React.

Tell me more about "frontend" developers please.

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