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Re:Coco Controller (YC S12) Will Turn Your iPhone Into A Ga... by brandnewlow on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @05:49PM (#4383230)
http://www.paulgraham.com/organic.html

"Don't be discouraged if what you produce initially is something other people dismiss as a toy. In fact, that's a good sign. That's probably why everyone else has been overlooking the idea. The first microcomputers were dismissed as toys. And the first planes, and the first cars. At this point, when someone comes to us with something that users like but that we could envision forum trolls dismissing as a toy, it makes us especially likely to invest."

Re:Coco Controller (YC S12) Will Turn Your iPhone Into A Ga... by shawndumas on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @05:53PM (#4383244)
but this is a toy...
Re:Coco Controller (YC S12) Will Turn Your iPhone Into A Ga... by bitwize on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @07:21PM (#4383588)
So was the JoyBoard.

Do you know what the JoyBoard's designers went on to create, what they were trying to build all along?

The freaking Amiga.

Actually, that was a toy too. But it was a phenomenally cool toy that was vastly more powerful than a lot of people's work computers.

Re:Coco Controller (YC S12) Will Turn Your iPhone Into A Ga... by ThePherocity on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @08:52PM (#4383865)
And look how that turned out...

Just sayin

Re:Coco Controller (YC S12) Will Turn Your iPhone Into A Ga... by sp332 on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @09:20PM (#4383946)