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Re:FlyKly Smart Wheel by zorpner on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @09:58PM (#6563252)
We're also going to read one sentence of your copy and assume that we know everything about how it works. We're going to draw a quick conclusion despite have never developed anything in that space and assert that your product has fundamental flaws without understanding your research, your market, or your funding model. We're going to compare your product to previous market failures despite fundamental differences that actually go so far as the previous product never having been produced.

But hopefully you'll still be able to get something useful out of this crowd :D

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Re:FlyKly Smart Wheel by noonespecial on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @10:02PM (#6563269)
Heh. Some of us might. There's no shortage of cynicism to go around, here and everywhere.

On the other hand, what does the HN crowd say about technologies they really do find uninteresting and unimportant? Absolutely nothing. They drop right off the bottom of "NEW" without a single comment.

Edit: And to be fair, most market-speak is so vapid that we often only get one meaningful line of copy stating the purpose of a thing and a picture showing us its general physical shape to go on. We have to deduce everything else from that. In short, we've gotten used to disappointment.

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Re:FlyKly Smart Wheel by FlyKly on Thursday October 17, 2013 @05:12PM (#6568160)
"On the other hand, what does the HN crowd say about technologies they really do find uninteresting and unimportant? Absolutely nothing."

This also encourages us in a way, as weird as it sounds. It probably means we're at least doing something right if everyone is paying so much attention to it. Thanks!

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Re:FlyKly Smart Wheel by FlyKly on Thursday October 17, 2013 @05:11PM (#6568151)
We're definitely getting a lot of useful information out of this, even if it appears somehow hostile at first. This way we can quickly see which information is even more important to stress and even what we somehow missed out initially.
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