I decided to stop working on Mighty
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I decided to stop working on Mighty
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#2I was skeptical about Mighty but seeing gaming platforms moving to streaming, PG endorsing this as the future, I thought I was just not getting it.
Maybe I should trust myself more.
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#3I never understood the value proposition here, but I assume they had _some_ traction which motivated them to work on this for almost four years. Curious as to their numbers and what people walked away thinking after trying it.
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#4It made no sense to begin with, had little to no use case and was full of hype by VCs [0] and had absolutely zero path to making any money.
Doomed for failure from the start.
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#6Can someone explain what Mighty is? There's no context either here or in the linked Twitter thread.
After significant searching, I found it:
Basically Stadia for webpages.
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#7In May 2021 Paul Graham wrote Crazy New Ideas[1], in which he explained that envy is the only reason people criticize ideas by "reasonable domain experts". This was widely understood at the time to refer to critics of Mighty[2][3].
[1]: http://paulgraham.com/newideas.html
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27062713
[3]: https://www.echevarria.io/blog/the-mighty-pushback-isnt-all-...
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#9Would be great if PG got more humble as a result, but something tells me that's never gonna happen.
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#10Props to them for taking risks and making the hard call to pivot. We need people building useful tools.