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Re:Show HN: Dull – Instagram Without Reels, YouTube Without ... by latexr on Thursday April 02, 2026 @06:54AM (#47612640)
What a rotten state of affairs that we’re now openly suggesting producing garbage with the least effort possible and selling it until caught. We used to criticise those who did that, calling them spammers and scammers and worse. Now, “telling some LLM to take a dump and trying to sell it to some chumps without a sense of smell” is viewed as a smart business model. Anything for an extra buck.
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Re:Show HN: Dull – Instagram Without Reels, YouTube Without ... by niek_pas on Thursday April 02, 2026 @08:24AM (#47613512)
Yup. The fast food philosophy has entered the software development world. Produce cheaply, don't think too much, shove it down your throat, move on.
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Re:Show HN: Dull – Instagram Without Reels, YouTube Without ... by duskdozer on Thursday April 02, 2026 @08:39AM (#47613662)
Maybe I'm misreading but the parent doesn't seem to be suggesting it as good but asking sarcastically. And yeah, the site has all the LLM-hallmarks.

Anything that's a service and has a single-payment "lifetime subscription" is immediately suspect.

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Re:Show HN: Dull – Instagram Without Reels, YouTube Without ... by kasparnoor on Thursday April 02, 2026 @09:09AM (#47613986)
Lifetime payment was highly requested by users (including existing users), since they have subscription fatigue. Since I use the app myself every day to reduce screentime myself I'm extremely motivated to fix every bug and make the UX as seamless as possible.
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Re:Show HN: Dull – Instagram Without Reels, YouTube Without ... by qq66 on Thursday April 02, 2026 @12:40PM (#47616788)
Why is it garbage? If you want something to block YouTube shorts, here's something that does it. It won't work forever, but you won't pay forever. Not all software needs to be high-craft and high-quality. Sometimes it can be just something a guy sells you off the back of his truck.
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Re:Show HN: Dull – Instagram Without Reels, YouTube Without ... by latexr on Thursday April 02, 2026 @01:02PM (#47617059)
> Why is it garbage?

You misunderstood. I’m not criticising this specific software, I’m criticising the attitude suggested by the parent comment. It was a general commentary, it has nothing to do with this particular app, which I have no idea if it was built that way.

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Re:Show HN: Dull – Instagram Without Reels, YouTube Without ... by AlexeyBelov on Saturday April 04, 2026 @05:05AM (#47637294)
> are now openly suggesting producing garbage with the least effort possible and selling it until caught

Well, this is a VC adjacent forum, so...

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