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Comment by Timwi | Hacker News Reader

Hate to be the party pooper, but the fact that you could talk about nothing but marketing and money and never spend a single word telling us what the software even does, speaks volumes on where your priorities lie. I am left with the impression that the software probably does nothing special, or even useful, and if I ever have any issues with it or suggestions for improvement, I will probably be completely ignored unless I come up with a way it would make you more money. I find it strange that this type of personality even calls themselves a hacker.

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This sentence seems to sum up why the money was important to him

> I finally have the confidence to take things a bit slowly, take care more of myself, and go on this vacation I really need.

On top of that we don't know what else the money will help with (maybe they have an aging parent to take care of, we don't know).

Your comment reads in a very overyly negative tone to me when the article seems to purposely exist to go over the financial aspect of the product.

Sorry that the post give you that impression.

I do have some links in the post that link to the product, but yeah I agree the context is a bit vague for the HN crowd. I added a small notice to the post hopefully to fix it.

FYI, I'm not trying to promote the product, it's the story I want to share.

Cheers!

I really appreciate you taking your chances and building something for yourself and being able the live off of it is even better. I'd call it "hack your life" ;) and find Timwi's reaction overly negative.

I also share the feeling it could have been a Tell HN instead of a Show HN.

But let's be honest, of course you want to promote your product. It's not a bad thing to admit that.

Thanks, sdiepend! I definitely should have used “Tell HN”

Thank you, it was an interesting read.

Obnoxious comment with a lot of unfounded presumptions. Why so hostile?

Because I don’t even know what the product is after glancing at the page

You should see Marketing as a multiplier of the value of a product. That's it, it can grow the value of your product by 1.5x, 15x or 1500x.

There may be some wizards (or con-men) that can multiply a zero in a greater value, but that's not the norm for sure.

At the end you can have a great product even without marketing, but usually not the other way around.

I'm a little suspicious that this could be marketing by one of those guys that message extension authors to sell their user's data. Kind of a, hey look, you could be making money. Why don't you say yes the next time I message you.

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