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Comment by hemancuso | Hacker News Reader

Originally said "coming soon" to see if anyone was interested. Turns out they are!

Can you explain a little more what you mean by this?

It means that is was not actually "coming soon". It said that, just to see if many people are interested in that feature. If there were many people interested, development of that feature would start. If not many people were interested, I guess the text would have been just removed. Makes sense?

Pretty convoluted to me...

But at least they've been working on it for a good minute:

https://twitter.com/expandrive/status/1000012200612950017

We took a beta list to gauge interest. No sense in all the work if nobody cares.

Yeah but why not just ask if people were interested? Instead of saying something that wasn't true..

Because everyone and their dog would say they want it, or are interested in it, even if they don't actually want it. This puts up a (small) barrier that helps gauge true interest.

It's the same idea as setting up a landing page for a product that doesn't exist and seeing if people click "pricing" or "buy now" to determine if there is a market for it.

No, it's simple, it's just a lie.

(Sorry, don't mean to attack anyone or put too much blame, but let's call it what it is.)

Technically the lie really only extends to the "soon" part, since it is coming. And software regularly has a list of future features that often don't ship. Would love to chat if you were ever interested!

Hi, I am always up for a chat, my email is mail@konstantinschubert.com. :)

To get back to our argument: By the time you said "coming soon" you didn't know if it was coming at all, so I would call that a bit of a lie.

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