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I went through most of the documentation but I still don't understand how this will help me in any way. I don't understand what it is?

> Become a hero

Marketing jargon like this is IMO very tiring. I am a hero because I use your product? Ok, I guess that is a very loose definition of that word.

I don't want to be negative really, but I have actually no clue what this product does or what problem it solves.

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You're not being negative, that's super useful feedback. We're using Oya internally but are still struggling with making it 100% (or even 80%:) clear what it is that it does. :)

It's best balanced with the feedback of people that have the opposite opinion. I don't think there's anything wrong with it. Being a hero is ingrained into our culture, and I think comic book culture is a net win for society, but if you hate comic books and seeing the term hero bandied about, that's fine. To each their own. But I will never be annoyed by it.

Thank you.

Perhaps I'm not your target audience which is just fine. But I would suggest to make some example of real world issues that Oya solves.

Right now it just felt way too generic and the silly marketing is not really helping. It could help to explain who will view you as a hero when using your product instead of just being a hero in the general sense, which is clearly not the case.

Honestly there's been so many "save time and spend it writing code that matters" tools hitting the HN front page in the past year that I've just tuned them out.

I have to agree here. Out of all the things I've seen, the hero part was the only one that made me cringe.

Other than that, I couldn't figure out much of what this product can offer me. For a while I thought it was yet another NodeJS kind of framework for bootstrapping the millions of other frameworks there.

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