Presumably, you’re donating 100% of your own efforts to remedy that? (With the occasional and understandable break to comment on HN, of course)

Then why are you frivolously commenting on a posting on a social media site about an article on video games for dogs?

Assuming you’re on your way to deliver them much-needed clean drinking water while typing this comment?

You make a fairer point than people realize. In 2023 we need less 'dog video game' disruption and more impact. Trying to commodify increasingly stupid things is a direct product of the startup culture this site (and Twitter + the community at-large) promotes.

This will look more embarassing than a professional history with fushigi balls if you put it on your resume. It doesn't matter if you're Joipaw-scale or DogTV.

Agreed. What we really need is a new payroll system with an API that uses GraphQL instead of Rest.

But seriously: niche products always look uninteresting and stupid to someone, and niche products trace all the way to folk crafts. cottage industries, and open air markets. Making video games for dogs is neither embarrassing nor a “product of startup culture”. It’s just something somebody thought was cool and put some time and money into. It’s great.

There's no "we". Different people need different things.

everyone else is replying with 'Yeah, and whatabou-you?!?' , which I think is non-constructive.

i'd just like to remind everyone that when you see something that represents an effort that you feel is trivial , it doesn't represent an opportunity to add effort elsewhere.

A thousand dog exercise machines won't fix world thirst. The people that work on dog exercise machines aren't going to suddenly divest all their effort from exercising dogs and throw themselves into tackling world-thirst should their company dissolve tomorrow.

'World effort' isn't one big commoditizable sum.

Are we to have no fun at all because people suffer elsewhere?

They've had the same time we've had to build a system to deliver clean water to themselves - if they haven't it's their fault and they deserve what they have (or don't have).

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OP's comment history suggests that they are not engaging conversation in good faith. Best not to feed the troll.

True. But if you know a bit about programming and a lot about dogs, that won't necessarily translate into being able to help with infrastructure.