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ibraheemdev

The article seems to have been written by:

> a 15 year old student who likes to code and blog

for some perspective :)

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It is a new generation: sales, hype and marketing first.

We all could learn from this.

I think we were all more susceptible to hype when we were 15

Maybe, but I can tell you when I was 15 I didn't have instant worldwide reach and the on-the-Internet-nobody-knows-you're-a-dog effect at my disposal, and neither did my readers.

I grew up with if you build people will come.

I don’t think it is like that anymore …

I think/hope that it is still like that, just that haters are a subset of people, whose opinions are currently disproportionately magnified.

Now it's "tell people you're thinking of building it and they will come"

[see Kickstarter et al.]

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