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I'm looking forward to trying this out and building something with this!

It looks like they're aggregating data from OSM: https://data.iggy.cloud/datasets

That's quite exciting. Having worked extensively with OSM and trying to build something useful out of their data, it's historically been a huge pain to do. I'm more than happy to pay them to make my life easier.

I'm interested in seeing how they add new and interesting datasets. I expect there's going to be some difficulty with keeping things interesting and useful, while making sure it's still simple.

I think you're misinterpreting the sentence, I did too when I first read it. He's using plain old, as a reference to normal or regular.

Like, I just wore a plain old shirt to the concert. Meaning, I just wore a regular shirt to the concert.

In this sentence, it means, "or just the regular reason of 'you're not doing a great job'."

Thanks for the reply! I'm going to give it a shot!

Any chance you can write down a little more tactical instructions on how you did this? I'd love to try this out, but am not super technical.

"Search the web using Google" https://i.imgur.com/9XDWpVk.png

or an even earlier version of Google, "Search Stanford" "Search the Web" https://i.imgur.com/EKiQnJX.png

They both provide more information than Pop does.

Anecdotally, Discord is down and unresponsive far more than Slack ever has been. I would never run Discord as the main method of communication at a large company. It might be fine for when I game, but it's unreliable for anything serious.

Here's some data to back it up:

Slack's uptime is 99.95% from August to October[1]

Discord's uptime is 99.85% from August to October[2]

[1] https://status.slack.com/calendar [2] https://discordstatus.com/uptime?page=1

It looks like he's launched two products that have gotten a little traction on Product Hunt[1].

I agree with you. I wouldn't give this the time of day. If he hasn't built out a successful product before, then he has no track record(as you say experience) to back up his ideas.

[1]: https://www.producthunt.com/@jakob_greenfeld/made

He doesn't HAVE to be, but he is. Isn't that a good thing?

> It could be that while a small number of users are helped by his personal attention on the forum, a much larger number of users are left frustrated by the UI.

This is just speculation. Without data to back it up, I can say the reverse is true too.

Since there isn't a large number of users that are posting about how terrible the UI is(on the Calibre forum), it's probably functional enough and people can navigate it.

I can't speak towards his attitude toward security flaws, but I think his reaction to not wanting Calibre updated is reasonable.

Anytime a UI is updated, you're going to completely modify the behavior or of the people that are using it. So any change someone else is making that isn't as closely tied with the product as he is, is probably going to be suboptimal. Not only from a user experience perspective, but also from his ability to answer questions on the forum as people are asking him questions about how to achieve certain things.

This means that he'll HAVE to be closely tied with a redesign. Which is probably not where he wants to be spending a significant amount of his time.

There's also the added complexity of legacy users that are just book people, that are quite used to the design as it is, so any migration over the new one, no matter how gradual, is probably going to make the product harder for them to use.

I'm not saying I agree or disagree with him, but his reasoning is valid. This isn't a project where you just hand off to someone completely new and let them do what they want. That's how you end up with a broken product.

That's a pretty poor strawman.

There are multiple stores that you can try and get your product on. If Walmart doesn't work, then you could try Target, or Aldi, or Amazon.

You have literally one option to go with on iOS. You can't even "drive to a new store", as switching to Android costs hundreds of dollars, and not everyone is in a financial situation to purchase a new phone on a whim.

I won't argue about the specifics of this, Epic paid lawyers millions of dollars to draft a court document about the monopolization of the iOS app distribution store. I'd urge you to read the document first before drawing pretty poor parallels.

We're on Hacker News, so the amount of people that are comfortable with sideloading apps on iOS is definitely going to be skewed.

I don't think that it's a good argument to make that anyone can do it, because it does require _some_ technical knowledge in order to do it. I'd make the argument that if it's not accessible to everyone, then I don't think it's a viable replacement for an app store.

To lean on F-droid as an example on the Android side, outside of the initial installation of F-droid(which can be done from your phone), you can easily browse F-droid and install apps.

I don't think it's as easy to sideload apps on iOS. I haven't done it in years(since my jailbreak days), but I remember that you needed to be on a Mac and needed xcode to do it. It's probably updated now to make it a bit easier, but from a quick Google it looks like you need to download a separate program in order to do it. It looks like other ways to sideload apps requires some abuse of developer certificates to make it work.

I'll defer to Epic's official court filings to make the argument for a monopoly for me. I'm not an expert on such topics, and it would be out of turn for me to speak more on it.

"Apple monopolizes the iOS App Distribution Market".

https://cdn2.unrealengine.com/apple-complaint-734589783.pdf

It's not about using a different OS. The monopoly is that if you want to distribute through Apple, you have to go through their app store. There's not another app store that you can go through.

At least with Android you can go through f-droid if you don't like the Play Store.

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