I've spent the last two years building a new email client

Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by nobodyaccount on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @04:02PM (#16980648)

Yes, it is trivial. You have a warped perspective of importance if you think giving the nod to a new mail app is some holy thing.

I tell my friends about new apps, startups, and projects all the time. None of them think I'm staking my reputation when I shitpost about some new thing in Slack.

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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by colde on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @04:50PM (#16981033)

I don't think the parent is claiming its a holy thing. But I certainly feel the same way.

My reputation is worth more to me, than trying to get higher up in a queue to a product i haven't tried. I don't share things with people lightly, and there are clearly a bunch of us out there.

Any certainly, nobody is advocating that our view of the world is the correct one, just that we hold that view.

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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by JonasJSchreiber on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @05:09PM (#16981181)

This is an awesome debate and one of the reasons I love HN

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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by dvfjsdhgfv on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @04:43PM (#16980974)

We are different. If I recommend a piece of software to someone these days, it means it's truly exceptional and they should really check it out.

Apart from that, the e-mail form doesn't let me control what I'm sending.

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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by mr_overalls on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @04:44PM (#16980987)

Recommending a product you haven't reviewed is a form of lying. Some of us value our integrity.

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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by eevilspock on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @07:24PM (#16982032)

Isn’t this true of all advertising, except in the rare cases where the publisher only accepts ads for products they endorsed?

How can we ever expect a reliable, non-garbage-dominate internet when it is funded by perverse incentives?

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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by lgas on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @11:54PM (#16983242)

The distinction is that if I see a billboard (or magazine ad, or TV commercial) advertising a product I don't think that I have a relationship with the billboard and they know me pretty well and have my best interests at heart... so I don't think that if this particular billboard that knows me so well is promoting a product to me then it must be a pretty good product for me (especially because this billboard doesn't usually go out of their way to recommend products to me).

But if a friend of mine recommends a product to me, well, I do think all of those things.

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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by nobodyaccount on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @07:19PM (#16982002)

Literally, nobody said to do that. Good lord, are you aware of nuance? You can make people aware of something that looks promising, without lying.

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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by mr_overalls on Thursday May 03, 2018 @11:36AM (#16986920)

> You have a warped perspective of importance if you think giving the nod to a new mail app is some holy thing.

You're taking a needlessly confrontational stance here with insulting language, and people are responding to that.

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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by privacypoller on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @05:08PM (#16981173)

and yet to make this comment you do it from an account created just for this purpose... why? to protect your reputation?

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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by nobodyaccount on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @07:21PM (#16982016)

It's almost as if context matters

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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by jamesrcole on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @06:41PM (#16981792)

But you're not giving the nod to it -- you don't even know yet if it's any good or not -- you're only telling them about it because you've got something to gain yourself from doing so.

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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by eevilspock on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @07:29PM (#16982062)

This is the essence of the crap filled internet. Everyone makes these local trade offs and before you know it we all lose. We are prisoners of the dilemma.

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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by nobodyaccount on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @07:19PM (#16982004)

Yeah! Now you've got it! You're just telling people about something. It's not a big deal.

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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by jamesrcole on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @08:06PM (#16982234)

Spam is also "just telling people about something".

Imagine what the world would be like if everyone had the same attitude towards other people's attention and time as you do.

I'm sure this behaviour doesn't seem like a big deal to you because relatively few people are so inconsiderate.

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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by lisper on Thursday May 03, 2018 @02:06AM (#16983689)

> Yes, it is trivial.

Then why are you posting anonymously?

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