Ask HN : What's the meanest thing that has been said about your startup? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN : What's the meanest thing that has been said about your startup?

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Post by marley » Wed, Jan 21, 2009, 7:44 PM UTC

okeumeni wrote: post #20

I don’t think that mean criticism is all bad; I’m one of those people who think you should not be creating companies if you don’t have a thick skin. I found out some mean criticism actually push you back against the wall and give you a different prospective on the whole thing. Human ambition feed on challenges; some on the things I did in my life I did them because someone told me I could not do. A personal story: In…

That's a really tragic story. Most awful part is the ending: "...[I] still feel good about it today."

Re: Ask HN : What's the meanest thing that has been said about your startup?

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Post by richcollins » Wed, Jan 21, 2009, 7:45 PM UTC

guruz wrote: post #90

richcollins wrote: post #82

pg said that our interface is bizarre :-P http://stylous.com/

Btw, for me only on the third level (e.g. http://stylous.com/#/jewelry/charms_pendants ) the cursor turns into a pointing finger. (Camino 1.6.6, OS X)

We're using Cappuccino which requires you to manually set the finger cursor in each place you want to use it. At first we were going to completely leave it out (since almost everything in the interface is clickable), but users were confused when it didn't appear. As such, we've decided to add it as we go.

We make money when someone clicks on a product and buys it, so product images were our first priority.

Re: Ask HN : What's the meanest thing that has been said about your startup?

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Post by shiranaihito » Wed, Jan 21, 2009, 9:39 PM UTC

webwright wrote: post #86

shiranaihito wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> we try to not go tooo far down the evil path So what have you done on the evil path so far?

Well, we've created a tool that a manager could put on an employees machine to see how they spend their time at work. We strongly market/urge managers to expose this data to their employees and allow them to see how they compare to the average on their team, but they don't HAVE to do that. The "spectrums" of evil that we deal with are: Open vs. stealth: Right now RescueTime can't be stealthy, but there are certainly…

With an app whose main feature is to track people in one way, it's not surprising that it would end up tracking people in other ways too.

In any case, please try to turn back and head back up the evil path, or at the very least, stop where you are :)

Re: Ask HN : What's the meanest thing that has been said about your startup?

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Post by okeumeni » Thu, Jan 22, 2009, 10:19 PM UTC

racy_rick wrote: post #85

okeumeni wrote: post #20

I don’t think that mean criticism is all bad; I’m one of those people who think you should not be creating companies if you don’t have a thick skin. I found out some mean criticism actually push you back against the wall and give you a different prospective on the whole thing. Human ambition feed on challenges; some on the things I did in my life I did them because someone told me I could not do. A personal story: In…

That is actually pretty mean. You finally took your life in your own hands and you blame your laziness, your sloth, your lack of motivation on someone that wanted to help you (albeit while being very uncouth). That is incredibly mean. You may not be fat anymore, but you are still an asshole.

WTF ... what are you talking about?