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

#1

Post by dan_sim » Tue, Jan 20, 2009, 2:13 PM UTC

When you have a startup, you hear a lot of mean words about people who want you to fail. It's time to talk about it. Feel free to add a link.

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

#2

Post by ph0rque » Tue, Jan 20, 2009, 2:18 PM UTC

> Add a link to your startup please.

What, you want others to exceed the meanness level? ;-)

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

#3

Post by dan_sim » Tue, Jan 20, 2009, 2:24 PM UTC

ph0rque wrote: post #2

> Add a link to your startup please. What, you want others to exceed the meanness level? ;-)

When people are mean to your startup, it usually mean that you are working on something good. But you're right that someone may not want to link his product. I'll change it.

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

#4

Post by lbrandy » Tue, Jan 20, 2009, 2:34 PM UTC

Probably the meanest thing you can say about someone's start-up is something along the lines of "Wow, we are really stretching the definition of a start-up here, huh?"

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

#5

Post by dan_sim » Tue, Jan 20, 2009, 2:37 PM UTC

Personally, the meanest thing that has been said about TimmyOnTime - http://www.timmyontime.com - (a project monitoring app that works with IM) is that it has an old smell of an IRC bots written back in 1998.

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

#6

Post by patio11 » Tue, Jan 20, 2009, 2:46 PM UTC

It's time to talk about it

Living well is the best revenge... but selling ~$30k of the app that would never have a single customer comes as a close second. :)

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

#7

Post by dan_sim » Tue, Jan 20, 2009, 2:52 PM UTC

patio11 wrote: post #6

It's time to talk about it Living well is the best revenge... but selling ~$30k of the app that would never have a single customer comes as a close second. :)

That's a classic though still very popular among mean people.

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

#8

Post by robfitz » Tue, Jan 20, 2009, 2:54 PM UTC

we got this one: "IF YOU TYPE TO ME ONE MORE TIME I’LL SUE YOUR BUTT OFF OF THIS COUNTRY!!!"

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

#9

Post by cosmo7 » Tue, Jan 20, 2009, 2:55 PM UTC

It's more start than up.

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

#10

Post by okeumeni » Tue, Jan 20, 2009, 3:12 PM UTC

This was not actually said about my startup but a good friend of mine’s startup, before he even got a chance to finish introducing his startup to his former class mates one of them said: ‘Wow that’s cute!’ They all replied ‘Yeah that’s very nice!’

2 years later he had $20M in the bank and had employed 3 of those friends.