I wish I built this. this is a great idea. it's simple and useful it's something I could have built myself in a couple of weeks and it aggregates a lot of business useful functionality into one place. I'm putting this in my list of businesses that are good ideas because they factor out internal projects repeated across many companies.
Reading the comments here it seems a lot of people are triggered. instead of acknowledging the idea is good and they wish they had build at themselves, they are in denial dismissing it's utility by saying it won't work as a business, or they could build it internally. I say this in the Spirit of a good hn comment is something we can learn from and I believe people can learn from examining their own reactions. it seems the denial and dismissal simply serves to make one feel better about the realisation that they missed the chance to build this even though they could have and it is a good idea. so instead of facing that feeling and learning something useful they "alter reality" by downplaying the idea is good to limit the pain.
my point is that that's not a very useful response because it neutralizes the opportunity that could be something to learn from. and I guess if you do this pattern of behaviour enough then, you stop yourself learning many times miss the chance to create things you want and maybe get addicted to this reaction of altering reality to feel better rather than learning something to get a result.
I appreciate your defense of these folks. It’s a kind gesture with great intent behind it. My response in no way takes away from the spirit of your post.
I think the core of why people are responding how they are is that there’s not a big moat here, yet. You mention people being triggered due to missing out on their opportunity to build it- but in reality someone can just knock these folks off after a couple of weekends. That’s not to say the tech here shouldn’t exist, or that this isn’t a business. It is, I’d pay for it, I just wouldn’t pay for long. That’s ok though, it’s just a specific type of business.
I hope they stumble across something sticky in their solution that makes them painful to replicate. These sorts of utilities are always welcome and they make bootstrapping faster and faster every year.
Reading the comments here it seems a lot of people are triggered. instead of acknowledging the idea is good and they wish they had build at themselves, they are in denial dismissing it's utility by saying it won't work as a business, or they could build it internally. I say this in the Spirit of a good hn comment is something we can learn from and I believe people can learn from examining their own reactions. it seems the denial and dismissal simply serves to make one feel better about the realisation that they missed the chance to build this even though they could have and it is a good idea. so instead of facing that feeling and learning something useful they "alter reality" by downplaying the idea is good to limit the pain.
my point is that that's not a very useful response because it neutralizes the opportunity that could be something to learn from. and I guess if you do this pattern of behaviour enough then, you stop yourself learning many times miss the chance to create things you want and maybe get addicted to this reaction of altering reality to feel better rather than learning something to get a result.