Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?

Re:Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big? by devoply on Monday December 05, 2016 @05:51AM (#13104635)

The point being most users are not power users. They just want stuff that they can get to work in 5 mins after a quick download. That's what a lot of geeks that have geeky solutions don't get. No one wants to do anything, they just want their cake for free preferably and they will pay money to eat it.

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Re:Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big? by noir_lord on Monday December 05, 2016 @07:06AM (#13104874)

I am a power user and I still want the 5 minutes after a quick download, the two aren't exclusive and there is too much (IMO) pride in the 'this is difficult to use so I'm special for knowing how to use it'.

I spend way too much time bashing heads with the rest of the software ecosystem these days.

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Re:Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big? by skuzye on Monday December 05, 2016 @07:17AM (#13104912)

Heck I'm an engineer and I wouldn't want to setup a SFTP server to replace my Google Drive account

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