(2013) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4994459
Suppose you are a solo technical founder and work out of coffeeshops and (climbing) gyms a lot. You want to move to, or airbnb in, the Bay Area to be around other people like yourself. Where do you go?
(I appreciate his efforts but I don't consider him a geek of any discipline or field, limiting his depth overall.)
But maybe it goes the other way with clones. (“[Original thing] doesn't stand a chance. Releasing [Clone] will totally kill the userbase.”)
Interactions on Twitter follow “rules” of interest-based disputes and discussion (sports, finance, AI dooming, technology predictions). You do not need to be liked on Twitter, only followed.
Interactions on LinkedIn follow Gervais Principles.
I don’t know what I want to call this fallacy. Maybe tit-for-tat fallacy.
One person’s bad behavior doesn’t “annihilate” or vacate the other’s. They don't “cancel out”.
The tactic is (reflexively) used to derail the interrogator and change subject.
“Yes, it is true I am also verbally abusive but right now we're talking about your verbal abuse.”
It's not that this line of reasoning works with the abuser but at least it's a reminder to oneself what's being attempted.
Here's one I use to decide from a list of free-form submissions whether to generate a link or a Google search:
(fn [pair-of]
(let [text (get pair-of 1)]
(cond
(clojure.string/starts-with? text "http")
(list [:a {:href text} (truncate text 60)] [:br])
:else (list [:a {:href (str "https://google.com/search?q=" text)} text] [:br]))))
(map link-expander list-of-links)
Do you think the Allens had commit privileges to the Stripe codebase? That seems unlikely.
At $0 MRR, that's exactly what they are.
This is not a dig but the (current) reality of community sites.
At Stripe, they were probably being paid as marketers, not engineering managers. (No team, no direct reports.)
One problem is that indie hackers, by self selection, are not typically investable. If you're not looking to raise, the forum you spend your time on can't, say, buy equity in you or funnel you toward a batch-based accelerator program.
Maybe the Allens can do micro-investments, but again you have a selection problem at play.
They could choose advertising and decide to grow the base. Then they start competing with outlets like The Hustle, My First Million and Morning Brew.
The group of people who want to be indie hackers is much smaller than the group who enjoy “business news” (Morning Brew) or business entertainment (My First Million).
Whatever the Allens decide, I hope they succeed.
> With that, I welcome you, the new user, to The Net.