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Re:Ask HN: How can I stay gainfully employed when I just wan... by Aeolun on Monday March 29, 2021 @08:32PM (#26630038)
Looking from the outside in, that’s definitely how it appears.

Perspective is important :)

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Re:Ask HN: How can I stay gainfully employed when I just wan... by nikhila01 on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @08:55PM (#26642362)
Which is why it's fine to challenge the comment. The commenter is implying a lot considering he doesn't have any inside knowledge of Adobe Sign.

And even if you look at public data--esignatures being relatively new, Covid moving more things to digital, DocuSign's share price up 5x since their 2018 IPO, Dropbox acquiring HelloSign for $230M, Adobe's own share price up 15x in the last 10 years--there's not much to indicate that Adobe Sign is a legacy app that could just survive in maintenance mode.

There's also a tendency for people to underestimate the size and complexity of applications because they only use a fraction of the features.

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Re:Ask HN: How can I stay gainfully employed when I just wan... by superyesh on Monday March 29, 2021 @08:35PM (#26630060)
Agreed. Perspective is important :+1 In hindsight, should not have commented and brushed it off :)
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